Andreas Malm

How to Blow Up a Pipeline by Andreas Malm offers a provocative and thought-provoking examination of the current climate crisis through a radical lens. This book explores the urgent need for escalated action against the fossil fuel industry, presenting an argument that the time for peaceful protests and mere appeals is over. Malm advocates for direct, disruptive action against the...

Young people are inheriting a world of climate catastrophe. Young people are also one of the strongest forces leading movements for climate justice and to halt the fossil fuel emissions that are making our Earth unlivable. As Greta Thunberg and the Fridays for the Future movement have made clear, solutions offered by adults are far too little, far too late:...

Warming is about to hit one and a half degrees, perhaps two degrees soon after. What do we do then? In the overshoot era, schemes abound for muscular adaptation or for turning the heat down at a later date, by means of technologies for removing CO2 from the air or blocking sunlight. Such technologies are by no means safe: they...

It might soon be far too hot on this planet. What do we do then? In the era of "overshoot", schemes abound for turning down the heat—not now, but a few decades down the road. We’re being told that we can return to liveable temperatures by means of technologies for removing CO2 from the air or blocking incoming sunlight. If...

The world is on the cusp of one and a half degrees of warming – just the rise it has committed itself to avoiding. Heat at such levels would be intolerable. Even before one and a half, seasons of climate disaster have struck with ever more devastating force, and yet a notion has taken hold that the cause is now...

Israel's pulverisation of Gaza since 7 October 2023 is not only a humanitarian crisis, but an environmental catastrophe. Far from the first event of its kind, the devastation Israel has inflicted on Palestine since October 2023 has merely ushered in a new phase in a long history of colonisation and extraction that reaches back to the nineteenth century. In this...