Episode Details

Roughly half the world's steel comes out of China, and the plants making it split into two almost unrelated industries: blast furnace ironmaking and electric arc recycling. That split explains why a mill in India looks nothing like a guided tour in Britain, why worker health outcomes vary by a factor of 77,500 between individual plants, and why sintering and blast furnaces pollute from completely different chimneys. This episode walks through the global production map, the documented health toll on steelworkers — hypertension, cataracts, bone density loss, pre-diabetes — and the hard question of whether wealthy countries actually make this safe or just make it managed. Episode #433074 — open it directly at myweirdprompts.com/433074