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How to Blow Up a Pipeline - Learning to Fight in a World on Fire (Paperback)
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How to Blow Up a Pipeline - Learning to Fight in a World on Fire (Paperback)
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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 haven't 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 stop--with 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 women's 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.
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Imprint: |
Verso Books
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Release date: |
2021 |
Authors: |
Andreas Malm
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Dimensions: |
198 x 129 x 15mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
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Pages: |
208 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-83976-025-9 |
Categories: |
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LSN: |
1-83976-025-7 |
Barcode: |
9781839760259 |
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