Everything you use today — your phone, your food, your hospital, your heating — runs on fossil fuels. Every single bit of it. This episode makes the case that the Industrial Revolution was never really about industry. It was about extraction. Coal, oil, gas, and the minerals beneath the ground built the modern world, power every great nation, and feed half the people alive on earth today. And nobody — not one person — has turned it off. A clear-eyed, no-nonsense look at the substance that built civilisation and the uncomfortable truth about what happens if it goes away.

Topics covered: fossil fuels, energy history, industrial revolution, geopolitics, oil and gas, energy poverty, great powers, USA Russia China, Haber-Bosch, plastic, artificial intelligence, extraction economy.

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