A WASHINGTON POST BEST BOOK OF THE YEARampampamp34An essential read.ampampamp34The Washington Postampampamp34Essentialampampamp8230 This book belongs on the shelf next to Merchants of Doubt Dark Money and Kochland.ampampamp34ampampamp160ampampamp8212Roy Scranton author of Learning to Die in the Anthropoceneampampamp34The petroleum industry is guilty of a Big Tobaccostyle public coverup according to this vivid exposampampamp233eacute.ampampamp34ampampamp8212Publishers 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 worldampampamp8212the oil sands in Alberta Canada.