Listen Now: Lawless Planet
Tides of History
Wondery / Patrick Wyman
4.8 • 6.3K Ratings
🗓️ 28 July 2025
⏱️ 5 minutes
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Summary
It’s not that hard to kill a planet. All it takes is a little drilling, some mining, a generous helping of pollution and voila! Earth over. When you take stock of what’s left, it starts to look like a crime scene: decapitated mountains, poisoned rivers, oil-soaked pelicans, maybe a sun-bleached cow skull in a dried-up lake bed. The only thing missing is yellow caution tape. On each episode of Lawless Planet, host Zach Goldbaum reveals the scams, murders and cover-ups on the frontline of the climate crisis, and the life and death choices people are making to either protect our world – or destroy it.
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| 0:00.0 | What if I told you the biggest crime story of our time is happening right under our noses, |
| 0:05.1 | and we're all witnesses? Introducing Lawless Planet, the new podcast from Wondry that |
| 0:09.6 | exposes the dark underbelly of the climate crisis. From the Amazon rainforest to small-town |
| 0:14.8 | America, hosts Zach Goldbaum uncover shocking tales of murder, corporate cover-ups, and greed. |
| 0:20.7 | You'll hear about the brave activists |
| 0:22.2 | risking their lives for their beliefs, the corrupt tycoons destroying ecosystems for profit, |
| 0:27.4 | and the ordinary people caught in the crossfire. This isn't some distant threat. It's happening |
| 0:32.0 | right now, and each episode drops you into a battle for our planet's future. There are mysterious deaths, daring heists, and billion-dollar scams, all with the fate of our world hanging in the balance. |
| 0:43.2 | This is Lawless Planet. |
| 0:44.9 | You're about to hear a clip from Lawless Planet. |
| 0:47.1 | Follow Lawless Planet on the Wondry app, or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 1:02.3 | 911, where's your emergency? |
| 1:04.5 | Yeah, I was just calling out. I'm home to figure out. |
| 1:06.3 | My heart's been missing for a while. |
| 1:09.2 | I can't figure out where he is. It's just before 2 a.m. on April 18th, |
| 1:15.0 | 2018. Amy Price is in her home in Bluefield, Virginia, an Appalachian coal mining town on the border of West |
| 1:21.6 | Virginia. Amy last spoke to her husband around 8 p.m. He said there were a few things he needed to take care |
| 1:28.3 | of at a coal mine he does business with. But Amy hasn't heard from him since. And now she's scared. |
| 1:35.8 | And he's been trying to depress right, and I know there's a lot of things going on with you're still |
| 1:42.0 | concerned. Okay, what's his name? |
| 1:45.0 | Larry Price, Jr. |
| 1:47.0 | Larry Price Jr., or L.J., as he's known to friends, is 38 years old. |
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