Beyond the Business

S5E5 Extraction

Extraction never stopped. It just became invisible. We call it progress, transition, clean energy. But everything still begins the same way, with land opened, rock broken, and something left behind. The system tracks what we take. It ignores what remains. This episode asks a simple question. Are we building the future, or extracting it?

Business News Digest 12

Europe thought the worst of its energy crisis had passed. Instead, energy is quietly returning to the centre of economic life, shaping where companies invest, how industry competes, and what growth may cost in the years ahead. This episode explores why Europe’s next business challenge may not be energy prices alone, but learning to compete in a world where energy risk has become part of the new normal.

S5E4 Delayed and Cancelled

Delayed and Cancelled explores what happens when economic life ends before environmental life does and why abandoned consequence continues acting long after industry walks away.

S5E3 Buried

We throw things away and call it disposal. But nothing truly disappears. Buried explores landfills, toxic waste, underground chemistry, and the hidden inheritance civilisation leaves beneath its feet for future generations to manage.

Business News Digest 11

Air travel has recovered, but the economics beneath aviation have changed. From aircraft shortages and engine bottlenecks to rising fuel costs and the growing price of decarbonisation. The New Economics of Flying explores why the future of air travel may be defined less by demand, and more by what it costs to keep the system airborne.