government officials in mozambique say this is a choice of fuel for about 80% of the population. of the three days, the wood chunks baking in this kiln will turn into charcoal, a valuable source of income for poor families. this is what the finished product looks like. a 50 kilogram bag of charcoal can fetch up to $5 u.s. dollars. he does what he needs to feed his family. the father of three walks up to 20 kilometers to make charcoal. he says he knows the disastrous effects his work is doing to the environment, but he has no choice. >> translator: i know i'm destroying the environment when i cut down trees, but i'm suffering. if i don't do this, i won't be able to support my family. >> reporter: in bigger towns, a bag can sell for three times the price. the country is still recovering from 16 years of civil war. many rely on charcoal as a cheap source of energy. >> charcoal is quite an urban problem. and i think if the income power of urban population can grow, there would be more jobs. people would earn enough to actually buy energy and buy the electric stoves. that could be a b

could that be a big help. >> reporter: but mozambique is one of the poorest countries in the world. electricity is a luxury. as long as charcoal is cheap, people will continue to cut down trees. communities happy about the money they're making now may only realize the full extent of the damage done to the environment decades later. haru mutasa, al jazeera, mozambique. >> now, let's go across the indian ocean for a look at how climate change is literally swallowing up a nation. that nation is the mald ease. arco polego off of southeast india. the comment by the president of the maldiz as this report from deutsche welle especially telling, as his country so may go the rest of the world. >> reporter: is an island in the north malaye group. it's home to about 2,000 people. for generations they have lived from the sea but now the sea itself is threatening their livelihood. the land here has been vanishing here for years. and the rate of erosion is increasing. this year some 15% of the land mass have been lost to the rising sea level. people are worried. not long ago, they could look out

haru mutasa, al jeera, mozambique >> now, let's go across the indian ocean for a look at how climate change is literly swallowi up a nati. that nation is the ma ease. arco poleff of southeast ina. the comment by the president of the maldiz as this reprt from deutsche welle especially telling, as hisountry so may go the rest of t world. >> reporter: is an island in t north malaye group. it's home to abt 2,0 people. forenerations they have lived from the sea butnow the sea itself is threating their liveliod. the land here has been vanishing here foyears. and the rate o erosion is increasing. is year some 15%f the land massave been lost tthe rising sea lel. people are worri. not long ago, they could look out to the sea, but now the waves are gna wing the beach away >> tralator: just two weeks ago you could sit out hre comfortably and look out tohe ocean in eving. now just look the beach's alreadsappeared. the war is geing highe and higher and the tes are getng stronger. >> reporter: just a few days ago the war inundated the strees. the wer allut destroyed th small harbor here. >> transl

medicines, bring bundles of clothes and she raised money for the patriotic front of zimbabwe, for mozambiquethers. for the anc and i don't think anybody did for africa in the history of africa as much as miriam did. every president in the world bowed at her feet. when she opened her mouth to sing it was very few, if any, singers who could match the magic that came out. >> charlie: she had voice that matched her heart. >> oh, yeah. i think that she's like louis armstrong, somebody that cannot be mourned, shee celebrated. >> charlie: you've said that before. when it went back, what were you expecting? >> well, i wasn't that uninformed because, charlie, i lived in botswana for five years, i realized that i wouldn't go back to south africa, chances are so slim and friend of mine, who was major activist himself, was living in botswana, we'd grown up together, he said, in england where you live, you just statistic. if you come here, you can impart knowledge, what you wanted to do when you went to the states. we were right next door to musicians, every weekend. i started a band then, my record comp

i mentioned the case of mozambique, which cut subsidies for its cashew industry and it killed the cashewustry. this is that kind of things we are seeing, these choices made on behalf of the corporate class of the investors worldwide. they punish the working class. yes, in terms of the top down system of globalization, if you look at how we have tried to revive our economy in the u.s., we have emphasized the bottom line of wall street, and the bottom line that needs to be prioritized is the ordinary americans balance sheet. people are overextended, painting much in debt -- paying too much in debt, and there is no clear path to reviving the economy when you have people over extended. there is no way to revive the consumer demand economy when people don't have any money. host: we have been talking with jon jeter, author of "flat broke. in broke. " it is part of our look -- the author of "flat broke in the free market." thank you very much for being on the program. now we're going to shift to skype and talk to an executive director with right online. you can find him at rightonline.com. tell

that is something you hear all the time particularly in countries like zambia or mozambique or they have socialist economies of also like and argentina were was not necessarily socialist but what they called imports of the and so basically everything the country neededhey made, s these kin of economies generated, they kept out foreign goods oter was that much on the shelves, there was not that much choice but everyone was working and producing tse goods, so there's a prade out there that i was trying to get to and how that relates to the second quote about, whatas the second one? julie, chile's economy after 1990 had one real guiding principle in mind, productivity. every dollar you spend, and every,ire economy was geared towards producing something, spending money on investing in productive wkers, production. it sounds sort of unsexy in 20. it is not speculation, it is not gambling that their housi prices going to doub over five years. it is every day making something, making something there requires skilled labor and selling it, and so this is the connection that is abou sort of-- i do

that is something y hear all the timearticularl in countries like zambia or mozambique where they have socialist economies but also in argentina were isn't necessarily socialist but morwith the coal imports of the juicesf basically everything the country needed they made, and so these kinds of economies generated, they kept out foreign goods other sn't thatuch on the shelves, wasn't that much choice but everyone was working in producing these goods, so there's tradeoff there. and how that relationship abo, what was the second one? julie, julie's economy after 1990 had one real guing principle inind, productivity. every dollar you spend, every, the entire economy was geared towards producing something. spending mey on iesting money in productive workers. production. in sounds sort of on sexy in 2009. it is not speculation, it is not gambling that their housing prices going to double in five years. it is just every day making something, making something that requires skilled labor and selling it, and so this is the connection that is about-- i don't want to make in this book any kind of