# Zambia's Sacrifice Zone

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Podcast: [Radio Workshop](https://stenobird.com/podcast/radio-workshop-4939473)
Published: 2025-12-09T05:00:00+00:00
Episode link: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2512142/episodes/18316636-zambia-s-sacrifice-zone.mp3
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## Resource

To continue our month of episodes from the Radio Workshop archives, we're revisiting a story from last year. Oliver grew up in Kabwe, Zambia. Nearly a century of lead mining has poisoned Kabwe's land, air, and water, making it one of the world's most toxic towns. Now Oliver is watching a new mining boom sweep across his country, this time for minerals that power clean energy. He faces an impossible choice: fight the industry, or join it to change it from within? Now 19 and a student at Copper...

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