The Biggest Crime in History

Most people believe that if something were truly dangerous, something capable of harming billions of people — someone in charge would stop it.

We trust that there are limits. That warnings would be taken seriously. That no rational system or person would knowingly trade the future for short-term gain.

This book begins with a difficult realization: that assumption is wrong.

We've seen this before. The tobacco industry knew their product killed people — their own research proved it — but they pushed it anyway. They buried the science. They funded fake studies. They bought scientists and politicians. They marketed to children. And when the bodies piled up and the lawsuits came, they didn't stop — they just shifted their target.

When regulations finally squeezed them in the US, they pivoted to the developing world where oversight was weak and populations were vulnerable. Millions died. Tens of millions more got cancer. They upheld people's "right" to slowly kill themselves, collected the profits, and kept selling.

And they're still doing it today.

But here's what makes fossil fuels and industrial agriculture different — and infinitely worse:

With tobacco, you chose to smoke. With climate destruction, there is no choice.

The fossil fuel industry and Big Ag aren't just selling a deadly product to willing customers. They're poisoning the air we all breathe, the water we all drink, the soil that grows our food, and the climate that makes civilization possible. You can't opt out. Your children can't opt out. Nobody can.

And just like tobacco, they knew.

Their scientists told them exactly what would happen. They had the research. They saw the predictions. And they made the same calculation: bury the evidence, fund the denial, buy the politicians, keep extracting profit until the system collapses.

The difference? Tobacco killed millions. This will kill billions — and it could end everything.

There is no one stopping them. Not governments. Not markets. Not the institutions we've been told would protect us when it mattered most.

This book is the evidence they tried to bury. This is the trial they never wanted. And you are the jury.