How to Blow Up a Pipeline
How to Blow Up a Pipeline: Learning to Fight in a World on Fire is a nonfiction book written by Andreas Malm and published in 2021 by Verso Books. In the book, Malm argues that sabotage is a logical form of climate activism, and criticizes both pacifism within the climate movement and "climate fatalism" outside it. The book inspired a film of the same name.
| Author | Andreas Malm |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Verso Books |
Publication date | January 5, 2021 |
| Pages | 208 |
| ISBN | 1-839-76025-7 |
| 363 | |
| LC Class | TD170 .M34 2021 |
Andreas Malm, a lecturer in human ecology at Lund University, wrote several other books on related subjects before his release of How to Blow Up a Pipeline. Prior to events in 2018 and 2019 including Fridays For Future and climate protest camps in Europe, the book was planned to be an argument that there was a lack of climate activism. These events caused the argument to become a critique of nonviolence and pacifism in the climate activist movement, and an argument for sabotage as a logical form of climate activism.
The book received both positive and negative reviews in various publications.