The podcast episodes discuss how resource exploitation, particularly by corporations and colonial powers, has had significant environmental, social, and economic impacts globally.

Several episodes explore how the exploitation of resources like cobalt, oil, and minerals in regions like the Democratic Republic of the Congo and other parts of the Global South has been linked to human rights abuses, environmental degradation, and the perpetuation of poverty and inequality.

The episodes also examine how a focus on profit-driven resource extraction under capitalism has contributed to the climate crisis and the destabilization of civilizations, with calls for a shift towards more sustainable, ethical, and equitable models of resource use and distribution.