Trailer Transcript
Teresa Cotsirilos: We're in the middle of an
environmental catastrophe.
News clip: New research has revealed
that the spread of urbanization is speeding up the population decline of
pollinators like bees and butterflies that are responsible for pollinating
about 30 percent of the food we eat.
Teresa: You know, one that could send the
global food supply into freefall and kill off some of the world's smallest and
most critically important creatures.
News clip: This might be one of the
most interesting, disturbing, and puzzling stories.
Teresa: Welcome to the pollinator
crisis. Right now, there are about 350,000 pollinator species on Earth. Every
year, honeybees pollinate some of our most nutritious fruits and
vegetables.
Archival tape: The cucumbers and the
melons and the strawberries and the apples …
Teresa: Working alongside them are
native bees, butterflies, hummingbirds, beetles, flies, mosquitoes, and even
bats. Entire ecosystems rest on these creatures’ tiny shoulders. But right now,
we're in the throes of a full blown biodiversity
crisis.
Saar Safra: Forty-five percent of all of these bees will die.
Teresa: The largest mass
extinction event since that meteor wiped out the dinosaurs.
Saar: If we don't save the pollinators,
things will get ugly pretty quick.
Teresa: It's not rocket science. How we
produce our food is killing off the very pollinators that food relies on.
So you
know, that's a buzzkill. But don't panic, because it is not too late to fix
this.
From the Food & Environment Reporting Network, this is
Buzzkill. I'm Teresa Cotsirilos, and in this limited series we're taking on the
pollinator crisis, how industrial agriculture is fueling it, and what we can do
to stop it.
Eric Lee-Mäder: Just as
an aside, this Target store is the site of the largest mass bumblebee poisoning
ever documented in history.
Teresa: We'll take you to a tribal nation
where farmers are severing ties with go big or get out farming and its colonial
roots.
Timothy Rhodd: I'm
standing on my ancestors shoulders right now, working
to set up this next generations.
Teresa: And we'll head to
California's Central Valley, where bees have become such a precious commodity
that people are stealing them.
Will Nissen: You ain't
just stealing beehives. You're stealing a part of me.
Teresa: Keep an ear out for
Buzzkill wherever you get your podcasts. Our first episode drops January 28th,
with new episodes weekly. In the meantime, be sure to follow Reap/Sow in your
favorite podcast app.
Teresa Cotsirilos: We're in the middle of an
environmental catastrophe.
News clip: New research has revealed
that the spread of urbanization is speeding up the population decline of
pollinators like bees and butterflies that are responsible for pollinating
about 30 percent of the food we eat.
Teresa: You know, one that could send the
global food supply into freefall and kill off some of the world's smallest and
most critically important creatures.
News clip: This might be one of the
most interesting, disturbing, and puzzling stories.
Teresa: Welcome to the pollinator
crisis. Right now, there are about 350,000 pollinator species on Earth. Every
year, honeybees pollinate some of our most nutritious fruits and
vegetables.
Archival tape: The cucumbers and the
melons and the strawberries and the apples …
Teresa: Working alongside them are
native bees, butterflies, hummingbirds, beetles, flies, mosquitoes, and even
bats. Entire ecosystems rest on these creatures’ tiny shoulders. But right now,
we're in the throes of a full blown biodiversity
crisis.
Saar Safra: Forty-five percent of all of these bees will die.
Teresa: The largest mass
extinction event since that meteor wiped out the dinosaurs.
Saar: If we don't save the pollinators,
things will get ugly pretty quick.
Teresa: It's not rocket science. How we
produce our food is killing off the very pollinators that food relies on.
So you
know, that's a buzzkill. But don't panic, because it is not too late to fix
this.
From the Food & Environment Reporting Network, this is
Buzzkill. I'm Teresa Cotsirilos, and in this limited series we're taking on the
pollinator crisis, how industrial agriculture is fueling it, and what we can do
to stop it.
Eric Lee-Mäder: Just as
an aside, this Target store is the site of the largest mass bumblebee poisoning
ever documented in history.
Teresa: We'll take you to a tribal nation
where farmers are severing ties with go big or get out farming and its colonial
roots.
Timothy Rhodd: I'm
standing on my ancestors shoulders right now, working
to set up this next generations.
Teresa: And we'll head to
California's Central Valley, where bees have become such a precious commodity
that people are stealing them.
Will Nissen: You ain't
just stealing beehives. You're stealing a part of me.
Teresa: Keep an ear out for
Buzzkill wherever you get your podcasts. Our first episode drops January 28th,
with new episodes weekly. In the meantime, be sure to follow Reap/Sow in your
favorite podcast app.
