Listen Now: Lawless Planet
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Wondery
3.9 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 28 July 2025
⏱️ 6 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 that the biggest crime story of our time is happening right under our noses, |
| 0:06.1 | and we're all witnesses? Introducing Lawless Planet, the new podcast from Wondery that exposes |
| 0:12.2 | the dark underbelly of the climate crisis, from the Amazon rainforest to small-town America, |
| 0:18.2 | host Zach Goldbaum uncoveres shocking tales of murder, corporate cover-ups, |
| 0:23.5 | and greed. You'll hear about the activists risking their lives for their beliefs, the corrupt |
| 0:28.4 | tycoons destroying ecosystems for profit, and the ordinary people caught in the crossfire. |
| 0:33.9 | This isn't some distant thread. It's happening right now. |
| 0:40.5 | Each episode drops you into a battle for our planet's future. |
| 0:45.5 | We're talking mysterious deaths, daring heists, and billion-dollar scams, |
| 0:48.6 | all with the fate of our world hanging in the balance. |
| 0:53.9 | This is Lawless Planet, and you're about to hear a clip from Lawless Planet. |
| 0:58.6 | Make sure to follow Lawless Planet on the Wondery app or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 1:10.4 | 9-1-1. Where's your emergency? Yeah, I was just calling out. |
| 1:12.6 | I'm coming here. |
| 1:13.6 | My heart's been missing for a while. |
| 1:16.6 | I can't figure out where he is. |
| 1:19.6 | It's just before 2 a.m. on April 18, 2018, 2018. |
| 1:23.6 | Amy Price is in her home in Bluefield, Virginia, an Appalachian coal mining town on the border |
| 1:29.3 | of West Virginia. |
| 1:31.0 | Amy last spoke to her husband around 8 p.m. |
| 1:34.3 | He said there were a few things he needed to take care of at a coal mine he does business with, |
| 1:39.1 | but Amy hasn't heard from him since. |
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