S5E6 Sacrifice Zones

S5E7 Fallout

We often think pollution happens where pollution is produced. The reality is very different. In this episode, we follow the story of fallout, from acid rain and atmospheric mercury to PFAS contamination now detected in some of the most remote places on Earth. It is a story about how consequences travel through environmental, economic and social systems long after the original transaction has ended.

S5E6 Sacrifice Zones

What if every economic transformation creates a place that carries the cost of everyone else’s progress? From Appalachia and the Niger Delta to the critical mineral regions powering the energy transition, this episode explores the geography of sacrifice zones , places where prosperity is built, but not always shared.

Blindspot — Port Race

Ports used to move trade. Now they concentrate power. Singapore, Rotterdam, Jebel Ali are not just infrastructure, but systems where logistics, energy and capital converge. The real question is no longer how fast trade can grow. It’s how long that growth can be sustained before the cost of keeping the system running becomes the constraint.

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.