Drawing from hundreds of confidential oil industry documents spanning decades, this explosive work of investigative reporting reveals for the first time the far-right conspiracy that’s stopped the world from preventing the climate crisis.
Finalist for 2022 Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction
A Washington Post Best Book of 2022
A declaration of resistance, and a roadmap for radical change, from the generation that will be most screwed by climate change.
Winner of the 2018 Green Prize for Sustainable Literature
Winner of the 2017 Dave Greber Freelance Writers Award
“Dembicki, a Canadian investigative reporter, has written a dark tale of money corrupting politics and paralyzing the public will”
–The Washington Post, the 10 Best Books of 2022
“[Dembicki’s] damning account is a worthy contribution to the literature on climate change”
–Publishers Weekly, starred review
“[Dembicki’s] book kind of depressed me, although in a good way because it revealed so much.”
–David Sirota, co-writer of Don’t Look Up