In honor of Earth Day we rebroadcast last year’s Earth Day special. The original show post can be found here. 

First Kata Beilin talks with host Esty Dinur about her documentary film, Maya Land: Listening to the Bees, which “tells the story of the conflict that erupted between Mayan beekeepers and the Mexican government in 2011, fomented by the planting of genetically modified soy in the Yucatan peninsula.”

Then, cultural historian Jenny Price talks about her book, Stop Saving the Planet! “Ninety-eight percent of the popular solutions refuse to challenge how our economy works,” she says—and until they do, we will continue to fail both the planet and the people who call it home.

Kata Beilin is a professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and faculty director of Latin American, Caribbean, and Iberian Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She is the author of In Search of Alternative Biopolitics in Contemporary Spain: Anti-Bullfighting, Animality, and the Environment in Contemporary Spain (Ohio State University Press, 2015) and co-editor of Ethics of Life: Contemporary Iberian Debates (Vanderbilt University Press, 2016). She recently directed and produced the documentary film Maya Land: Listening to the Bees (2022).

Jenny Price is a public writer, artist, and historian and a research fellow at the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis. She is the author of Stop Saving the Planet!: An Environmentalist Manifesto (W.W. Norton, 2021).

Photo by Dmitry Grigoriev on Unsplash. Music in the intro is Chopin – Mazurka Op7No5 by Blue Dot Sessions.

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