Can I read How to Blow Up a Pipeline : Learning to Fight in a World on Fire on EtoBox?

How to Blow Up a Pipeline : Learning to Fight in a World on Fire by Andreas Malm is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is How to Blow Up a Pipeline : Learning to Fight in a World on Fire about?

Property will cost us the earth. 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 L

Who reads How to Blow Up a Pipeline : Learning to Fight in a World on Fire?

Author

Andreas Malm

Publisher

Verso Books

Published

2021

Language

EN

ISBN

9781839760273

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Political Science, Economics, History