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They knew. They lied. They're still lying.

In July 1977, a senior scientist stood before the management committee of one of the world's most powerful corporations and told them exactly what their product was doing to the planet. His models were accurate. His warnings were precise. The executives understood completely.

Then they buried the research, funded the doubt, and spent the next fifty years making sure you never found out.

Gas'lighting: Pun Intended is the forensic account of the most consequential deception in modern history — the fifty-year campaign by the fossil fuel industry to prevent the world from understanding its own energy options. Drawing on internal corporate memos, court discovery documents, funding disclosures, and the industry's own research, Aldo Grech traces the machinery of that deception from its origins in a New York hotel room in 1953 to the live crisis unfolding in the Strait of Hormuz today.

This is not a book about climate science. The science has been settled for decades, settled privately by the very companies that spent billions publicly denying it. This is a book about power: how it defends itself, how it manufactures confusion, and how that confusion ends the moment you see it for what it is.

• The original crime - Exxon's own scientists predicted global warming with what Harvard researchers later described as "shocking skill and accuracy." The research was cut when management concluded there was "no near-term threat of legislation."
• The machinery of doubt - the PR firms, funded sceptics, think tanks, and media networks built specifically to ensure the public never felt certain enough to demand action. The same infrastructure that defended Big Tobacco, deployed against the climate.
• The $7.4 trillion question — the annual global fossil fuel subsidy, confirmed by the IMF, that you are paying without knowing it — while being told renewable energy cannot compete without support.
• The false proxies — nuclear, hydrogen, and carbon capture, promoted not as genuine climate solutions but as delay mechanisms by the same interests that needed the transition not to happen.
• The announcement graveyard — the decade of spectacular EV commitments by the world's largest automakers that were never intended to be kept, while the global market they announced they were building for was captured by Tesla and Chinese manufacturers.
• The myths they needed you to believe — range anxiety, battery fires, lithium mining, grid collapse — each one traced to its manufactured origin and demolished with the evidence its creators hoped you would never see.
• The architecture of dependency — the petrodollar system, the wars fought to protect it, the communities destroyed by it, and why a 21-mile waterway in the Persian Gulf can still hold the entire global economy hostage in 2026.
• The programme that doesn't exist — why the technology is ready, the economics have turned, and the only thing standing between the world we have, and the world that is already available is the political will that $7.4 trillion per year has been spent to prevent.

Gas'lighting is not a counsel of despair. It is a forensic briefing, the documented account of what was done, by whom, and why. Because the people who built this system counted on one thing above all others: your not knowing.

The technology exists. The economics have turned. The Strait of Hormuz is proof that the vulnerability is structural, not inevitable. The only thing that changes none of this is leaving this page without reading the book.

The facts do not become less true because they are hard to hold. This book is the receipt.

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