Reach For The Gold, Drown In The Oil | S2 EP7

Oil built our world and now it’s burning it.
In this episode, I trace how a single resource shaped empires,
rewrote borders, and still fuels the wars and illusions of modern
civilization.
From the first oil well to the towers of Dubai, from the deserts
that turned to gold to the climate that’s collapsing beneath it
this is the story of The Empire of Oil.
The fire we chose to feed.


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