Ecocide Podcast

Every environmental disaster starts the same way. Not with an explosion, a spill, or a cloud of gas, but with a decision. Sometimes the decision to cut a corner. Sometimes to ignore a warning. Sometimes to let a known risk sit until it became someone else's problem. Ecocide is an independent narrative podcast about environmental destruction—part environmental history, part history still being made. Each episode investigates a moment when human activity collided with the natural world, and follows what happened next and who was left to deal with the fallout. The stories fall into four categories: infamous disasters you've heard of but don't know the full story of, like Deepwater Horizon. Local cases that never made national news. Historical episodes that explain how ecosystems break and sometimes recover, like DDT or the capture of wild orcas. And real-time conflicts you can still do something about. Environmental stories usually get covered one of two ways—as breaking news that's gone before the consequences arrive, or as advocacy with the conclusion already built in. What's missing is depth. The facts established, the tradeoffs examined, the decision-makers named, and the communities left behind given their due. All without telling you what to think. Every episode is built on primary sources. Court documents, agency records, peer-reviewed science, and the reporters who were there when it happened. We don't start with a conclusion and work backward. We start with the record. Because the earth doesn't forget. And neither can we.