Thanks for listening to EcoRadio KC! We bring you vital information underserved or ignored by mainstream media. We are supported by listeners who share our mission. EcoRadio KC is glad to encourage awareness and protection of our world.  Our goal is to ensure our listeners are aware of how we can create a sustainable present for a sustainable future! It will take us all to make the world safe for habitation for millennia to come. EcoRadio KC is broadcasting during the KKFI Pledge Drive.  KKFI is listener supported radio.  If you share KKFI’s mission of providing an independent voice to music and information underserved or ignored by mainstream media, dial 888-931-0901. Consider becoming a Sustaining Member today. Ask for details on that option. Call 888-931-0901 or go online at K-K-F-I dot O-R-G to make your pledge.  You can call the number, go online, or use Facebook to show your support! On this week’s EcoRadio KC, Terri Wilke speaks with Sunaura Taylor, an artist and writer. She is the author of "Beasts of Burden: Animal and Disability Liberation" (The New Press, 2017), which received the 2018 American Book Award. Taylor has written for a range of popular media outlets and her artworks have been exhibited widely both nationally and internationally. She works at the intersection of disability studies, environmental justice, multispecies studies, and art practice. She is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management at the University of California, Berkeley. Her latest book is "Disabled Ecologies: Lessons from a Wounded Desert" (University of California Press, 2024). How do illness and disability function in ecological thinking, other than as a cautionary tale? First, we can center the relational networks between bodies and environments.  Second, we can refuse to abandon people who and landscapes that have been harmed.  Finally, we can commit to challenging the social and economic inequalities that are the root causes of the harm. We support the work for a future in which humans flourish as members of a thriving ecosphere. We are all in this together and it will take all of us to make the world safe. This will be a great radio hour!   “The whole world is one neighborhood.”  Franklin D. Roosevelt