Getting to ZERO carbon dioxide emissions - without going nuclear; and the connections between climate change and the world food crisis.

Host Daphne Wysham speaks to Arjun Makhijani and his colleagues at the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research on their plan for cutting greenhouse gases without turning to nuclear power.

A discussion on the connections between climate change and the world food crisis. Joining us from locations around the world are: Walden Bello with Focus on the Global South; Debbie Barker with the International Forum on Globalization; and Anuradha Mittal of The Oakland Institute.

In our final segment - we get an on-the-site report from the border of Burma and Thailand on the thousands of people killed and injured during the recent devastating cyclone. (The military government of Burma have renamed the country - Myanmar.)

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Image used courtesy of Squacco via Flickr.

Music for this edition of Earthbeat is "World Looking In" by Morcheeba and "Lebanese Blonde" by Theivery Corporation. Our theme music is Baladi by Tony Anka, Bellydance Superstars vol. 2.