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How to Blow Up a Pipeline 2021
How to Blow Up a Pipeline: Learning to Fight in a World on Fire is a 2021 nonfiction book published by Verso Books and written by Andreas Malm. The work follows Malm's argument that sabotage represents a reasonable approach within climate activism, rejecting both pacifism inside the movement and "climate fatalism" outside of it. The book led to a film adaptation with the same title.
Andreas Malm, who teaches human ecology at Lund University, had previously authored multiple works on related topics before releasing How to Blow Up a Pipeline. Originally, the book was intended as a critique of insufficient climate action. However, developments in 2018 and 2019—including Fridays For Future and climate protest camps across Europe—shifted the focus toward condemning nonviolent approaches within the climate movement. This change resulted in an argument promoting sabotage as a logical form of climate activism.
Reviews of the book appeared in various publications, receiving both favorable and critical responses.
Details
- Publisher
- Verso Books (UK)
- ISBN
- 9781839760259
- Pages
- 208
