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