From the first coal mines of Britain to the burning forests of the Amazon, this episode traces how the Industrial Revolution ignited a global addiction — to comfort, to growth, to fire itself. I unpack how empires of industry became empires of carbon, how the Paris Agreement became a promise on paper, and why climate change isn’t a tragedy of nature but a design of civilization.
A story of smoke, survival, and the price of progress.

• Our World in Data – CO₂ Emissions Since 1750:
  https://ourworldindata.org/co2-emissions
  

• International Energy Agency (IEA) – Historical Energy Data:

• Friedrich Engels, The Condition of the Working Class in England (1845):

• Global Carbon Project (2023):
  https://www.globalcarbonproject.org/.

• Oxfam & Stockholm Environment Institute Report (2020) — Confronting Carbon Inequality
  https://policy-practice.oxfam.org/resources/confronting-carbon-inequality-621052/
  

• UN OCHA – Pakistan Floods Situation Report (2022):
  https://reliefweb.int/report/pakistan/
  

• UNFCCC (United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change):
  https://unfccc.int/climate-finance
  

• OECD 2023 Climate Finance Report:

• Friends of the Earth & The Guardian (2021–2023):

• Amnesty International – This Is What We Die For (2021 Update):
  https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2021/11/drc-cobalt-mining/
  

• The Guardian (2022) – “Lithium extraction in Chile’s Atacama desert drying up water supplies”:
  https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jan/07/lithium-chile-water-rights
  

• Brazilian National Institute for Space Research (INPE) – PRODES Deforestation Data 2023
  http://terrabrasilis.dpi.inpe.br
  

• Science (Lovejoy & Nobre, 2018):
  https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aat2340
  

• WWF Amazon Report (2022):

• UNFCCC – Paris Agreement Text (2015):
  https://unfccc.int/process-and-meetings/the-paris-agreement/the-paris-agreement
  

• BBC News (2020) – “Which countries have ratified the Paris climate deal?”
  https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-35073297
  

• Global Carbon Budget (2023):

• International Energy Agency (IEA, 2023):

• World Bank – Groundswell Report II (2021):
  https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/36248
  

• UNHCR – Global Trends: Forced Displacement 2023
  https://www.unhcr.org/globaltrends
  

• Naomi Klein – The Shock Doctrine (2007)

• The Guardian (2022) – “Oil and gas companies plan expansion despite climate pledges.”

• Vanessa Nakate / Fridays for Future Africa:
  https://fridaysforfuture.org