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The poor in developing countries are fighting back against the multi-national oil companies. Host Daphne Wysham speaks to activists from Nigeria and Indonesia about how oil exploration and biofuel production are devastating the developing world.

Mina Susana Setra, from Indonesia, is the director of international advocacy and foreign affairs for AMAN – Aliansi Masyarakat Adat Nusantara – Indigenous Peoples Alliance of the Archipelago. From Nigeria is Nnimmo Bassey, the executive director of Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth, Nigeria. View the film, The Forest Lament.

David Waskow, the director of the climate change program for Oxfam America speaks about how US policy could greatly affect adaptation around the world. View the Oxfam video on adaptation.

David Korten is the author of When Corporations Rule the World. In his latest work, The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community, Korten lays our his paradigm shift for true worldwide change. He spoke at the recent IFG/IPS Teach-In.

Adaptation to the energy crisis and climate change — that’s coming up today on Earthbeat.

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