A WASHINGTON POST BEST BOOK OF THE YEARampamp34An essential read.ampamp34The Washington Postampamp34Essentialampamp8230 This book belongs on the shelf next to Merchants of Doubt Dark Money and Kochland.ampamp34ampamp160ampamp8212Roy Scranton author of Learning to Die in the Anthropoceneampamp34The petroleum industry is guilty of a Big Tobaccostyle public coverup according to this vivid exposampamp233eacute.ampamp34ampamp8212Publishers Weekly STARRED ReviewBurning fossil fuels will cause catastrophic global warming this is what top American oil executives were told by scientists in 1959. But they ignored that warning. Instead they developed one of the biggest most polluting oil sources in the worldampamp8212the oil sands in Alberta Canada.