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by Simon Jones (Author)

Think about our buildings for a moment. They had one important job. It was an evolutionary bargain with our environment: we build structures to protect us from the elements and keep predators out.

Objectively, however, we are failing. Somewhere along the way, we forgot the mammal inside the box. We became obsessed with the box itself, how energy, efficient it is, how airtight we can make it, and how cheaply we can stack it. In doing so, we broke the bargain. Instead of keeping danger out, we've trapped it inside with us. We have spent the last fifty years conducting a "grand chemical experiment" on ourselves.

The Time Thief forces us to confront this systemic, invisible massacre. The air we breathe kills roughly 7 to 8 million people each year. For every one person killed by a car, roughly six die from breathing polluted air. Yet for fifty years, we have been selling cars without speedometers, building homes, schools, and offices without basic sensors to tell us whether the air inside is actually safe. We have allowed minimum compliance, the worst thing you are allowed to do by law, to become the maximum ambition of a profit-driven market.

This book introduces the antagonist of this crisis: The Time Thief. It is a quiet, dangerous villain that doesn't just shorten our lives with fatal asthma attacks or cardiovascular disease, but robs us of the quality of our present time. It erodes children's ability to focus in unventilated classrooms, steals productive years through sick building syndrome, and condemns older adults to respiratory fatigue in tightly sealed retirement homes.

This is an implementation problem, not a science problem. I am not an academic researcher; I am the "General Practitioner" of the built environment. Through the Air Quality Matters podcast, I have spent two years and nearly two million spoken words interviewing over 100 of the world's leading scientists, engineers, and doctors to synthesize their brilliance into plain English. The Time Thief is a manifesto that calls out the "not my job, mate" culture of the construction industry, the "gaslighting" of tenants blamed for black mould, and the dangerous pursuit of net-zero carbon targets that ignore the lungs of the people inside.

It is time to lock the door on the Time Thief and recognize that clean indoor air is not a premium corporate luxury, but a fundamental human right.

Number of Pages: 198
Dimensions: 0.45 x 9 x 6 IN
Publication Date: March 26, 2026
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by Simon Jones (Author)

Think about our buildings for a moment. They had one important job. It was an evolutionary bargain with our environment: we build structures to protect us from the elements and keep predators out.

Objectively, however, we are failing. Somewhere along the way, we forgot the mammal inside the box. We became obsessed with the box itself, how energy, efficient it is, how airtight we can make it, and how cheaply we can stack it. In doing so, we broke the bargain. Instead of keeping danger out, we've trapped it inside with us. We have spent the last fifty years conducting a "grand chemical experiment" on ourselves.

The Time Thief forces us to confront this systemic, invisible massacre. The air we breathe kills roughly 7 to 8 million people each year. For every one person killed by a car, roughly six die from breathing polluted air. Yet for fifty years, we have been selling cars without speedometers, building homes, schools, and offices without basic sensors to tell us whether the air inside is actually safe. We have allowed minimum compliance, the worst thing you are allowed to do by law, to become the maximum ambition of a profit-driven market.

This book introduces the antagonist of this crisis: The Time Thief. It is a quiet, dangerous villain that doesn't just shorten our lives with fatal asthma attacks or cardiovascular disease, but robs us of the quality of our present time. It erodes children's ability to focus in unventilated classrooms, steals productive years through sick building syndrome, and condemns older adults to respiratory fatigue in tightly sealed retirement homes.

This is an implementation problem, not a science problem. I am not an academic researcher; I am the "General Practitioner" of the built environment. Through the Air Quality Matters podcast, I have spent two years and nearly two million spoken words interviewing over 100 of the world's leading scientists, engineers, and doctors to synthesize their brilliance into plain English. The Time Thief is a manifesto that calls out the "not my job, mate" culture of the construction industry, the "gaslighting" of tenants blamed for black mould, and the dangerous pursuit of net-zero carbon targets that ignore the lungs of the people inside.

It is time to lock the door on the Time Thief and recognize that clean indoor air is not a premium corporate luxury, but a fundamental human right.

Number of Pages: 198
Dimensions: 0.45 x 9 x 6 IN
Publication Date: March 26, 2026

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The Time Thief: The Broken Promise of Our Buildings and the Fight for the Air We Breath - Paperback

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The Time Thief: The Broken Promise of Our Buildings and the Fight for the Air We Breath - Paperback

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