num_pages: 208
description: The science on climate change has been clear for a very long time now. Yet despite decades of appeals mass street protests petition campaigns and peaceful demonstrations we are still facing a booming fossil fuel industry rising seas rising emission levels and a rising temperature. With the stakes so high why havent we moved beyond peaceful protest?In this lyrical manifesto noted climate scholar (and saboteur of SUV tires and coal mines) Andreas Malm makes an impassioned call for the climate movement to escalate its tactics in the face of ecological collapse. We need he argues to force fossil fuel extraction to stopwith our actions with our bodies and by defusing and destroying its tools. We need in short to start blowing up some oil pipelines.Offering a counter-history of how mass popular change has occurred from the democratic revolutions overthrowing dictators to the movement against apartheid and for womens suffrage Malm argues that the strategic acceptance of property destruction and violence has been the only route for revolutionary change. In a braided narrative that moves from the forests of Germany and the streets of London to the deserts of Iraq Malm offers us an incisive discussion of the politics and ethics of pacifism and violence democracy and social change strategy and tactics and a movement compelled by both the heart and the mind. Here is how we fight in a world on fire.
language: English
title: How to Blow Up a Pipeline
publisher: Verso Books