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Title How to blow up a pipeline : learning to fight in a world on fire / Andreas Malm
Imprint London : Verso, 2021

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 Stadsbibl:Slottet vån 3 Samhällsvetenskap  363.325 engelska    DUE 24-04-03  ---
 Stadsbibl:Slottet vån 3 Samhällsvetenskap  363.325 engelska    CHECK SHELF  
1 copy ordered for Malmö stadsarkiv:Dawit Isaak-biblioteket on 2022-01-03.
Descript 200 pages
Note 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
Subject Klimatförändringar
Miljöfrågor
Miljöaktivister
Ekoterrorism
Ecoterrorism
Climate change mitigation
Protest movements
Political science
Energy industries -- Environmental aspects
Classmark 363.325933379
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ISBN/ISSN 9781839760259 paperback
9781839760266 (US ebk)
9781839760273 (UK ebk)
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