Want to hear something fucked up? The federal government has known about climate change and the effects of burning fossil fuels since the goddamn 1950s. Want to hear something even more fucked up? Scientists knew about it for decades before that. In a parallel universe, the powers that be actually addressed this looming crisis a century ago, but in this universe, government and industry coalesced to do jack shit. What the fuck happened? Nathaniel Rich’s new maddening but necessary book-length follow-up to his epic 30,000-word New York Times Magazine article explains the history of our colossal failure to act. by Katie Herzog