How to Blow Up a Pipeline

Praise

“If a livable world requires an all-over transformation, where and when and how do we start? Perhaps with this book, a provocative manifesto from the pioneering theorist of the climate age.”
—David Wallace-Wells, author of The Uninhabitable Earth

“How to Blow Up a Pipeline is a challenge to the left, and an important one.”
—John Foster, The Battleground

“A short and gripping manifesto which aims to wrench the climate movement out of its complacency.”
—Bright Green

“Timely … Malm delivers the essay in his usual lucid and fiery style.”
—Ecologist

“One of the most important things written about the climate crisis.”
—Wen Stephenson, Los Angeles Review of Books

“A profoundly necessary book.”
—Scott W. Stern, Los Angeles Review of Books

“Advocates powerfully against despair and powerlessness.”
—Tatiana Schlossberg, New York Times

“Written passionately … Malm argues that it may be too late to avert climate crisis, but it is far from too late to ameliorate suffering.”
—Sawarin Suwichakornpong, Bangkok Post

“Malm offers a critical, passionate and hopeful assessment of where it might go next. Malm’s refreshing humanist ethos combined with his marxist radicalism make him one of the most exciting contemporary writers on the climate crisis, this forceful new entry into his repertoire is no exception, though perhaps a different beast from his more academic work.”
—Political Economy Research Centre

“Refreshing and provoking.”
—It’s Freezing in LA

“How to Blow Up a Pipeline makes a strong case for looking beyond non-violent activism.”
—VICE

“A humble and nuanced case … it’s hard to read this book without daydreaming about sabotaging the private jets of the ultra-rich.”
—Tim DeChristopher, Yes Magazine

“While the book does not live up to its titular promise of providing instructions to detonate a pipeline, it does make an unflinching case for carrying out such activities in advanced capitalist countries.”
—James Wilt, Canadian Dimension

“Malm [has] captured the rising fury of climate activists.”
—Pilita Clark, Financial Times

“Impossible to dismiss.”
—David Wallace-Wells, Times Literary Supplement

“Malm is right. Shunning all violent acts will only prolong the worst. No new fossil fuel infrastructure can be created, and we need, as a society, to dismantle what we already have.”
—Devi Lockwood, Vice

“By ruling out direct action, the climate movement robs itself, in Malm’s view, of its only serious means of leverage. ”
—Adam Tooze, London Review of Books

“If you want to do something about the climate crisis instead of wallowing in despair, there’s no better place to start than Andreas Malm’s short treatise on the virtues of eco-sabotage. Provides a radical sort of hope.”
—Abigail Weinberg, Mother Jones

“An impassioned argument for climate activists to move beyond non-violent protests … Even for those who disapprove of How to Blow Up a Pipeline, it is a useful guide to the noisiest climate activist voices.”
—Economist

“A seductively well-written and well-researched book that argues climate activists should abandon their longstanding ‘commitment to absolute non-violence,’ and instead ‘escalate’ their campaign by ‘physically attacking the things that consume our planet,’ such as fossil fuel infrastructure.”
—Andy Beckett, Guardian