George Saunders: “It’s an Agitating Book for a Lot of People”

Last month, congressional Republicans introduced legislation to shield Big Oil companies from liability for their role in the climate crisis. This was just the latest in the fossil fuel industry’s efforts to escape accountability for delaying our clean energy transition through decades of climate deception.

Meanwhile, millions of Americans are already experiencing climate-related heat waves, fires, floods, and droughts—disasters that Big Oil companies were predicting decades ago, with internal...