From Bloomberg via Yahoo, December 14:
The past few months have seen a flurry of climate protests. In Marseilles, a cement factory was sabotaged by activists for its high emissions. In London, tomato soup was thrown at Van Gogh’s Sunflowers by members of the group Just Stop Oil. Other activists have taken to deflating SUV tires in cities across Europe and the US to discourage use of the gas-guzzling vehicles.
This is only the beginning of what climate activists need to do in order to be effective, says Andreas Malm, associate professor of human ecology at Lund University and author of How to Blow Up a Pipeline. “The task for the climate movement is to make clear for people that building new pipelines, new gas terminals, opening new oil fields are acts of violence that need to be stopped — they kill people,” Malm says on Bloomberg Green’s Zero podcast....
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Previously (September 26, 2021):"Should the Climate Movement Embrace Sabotage?"
From The New Yorker, September 24:
The New Yorker Radio Hour
....Also, Professor Andreas Malm, who studies the relationship between climate change and capitalism, insists that the environmental movement reconsider its roots in nonviolence.
How to Blow Up a PipelineAndreas Malm insists that the environmental movement rethink its roots in nonviolence and instead embrace “intelligent sabotage.”
Three Books Offer New Ways to Think About Environmental Disaster
By Andreas Malm
200 pp. Verso. Paper, $19.95.....
With these major media outlets giving this guy a platform, should there be physical damage, injury, death or other terror techniques commited at his behest or by his acolytes, a bright paralegal could probably find the deep pockets to sue in, oh, eight seconds.
