COP30, the UN Climate Change Conference held in Brazil, brought the world's governments together to discuss global commitments in the face of the climate crisis, the same stage where the energy transition is celebrated as a collective promise. In that context, Sapiens covered the stories of those who carry its highest cost, indigenous peoples displaced by hydroelectric dams, Amazonian communities and children contaminated by decades of oil extraction, and collectives resisting the advance of extractive economies.