The Fire We Built | S2 EP6

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