Andreas Malm

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 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.

How to Blow Up a Pipeline

A sweeping study of how capitalism first promoted fossil fuels with the rise of steam power—and contributed to the worsening climate crisis The more we know about the catastrophic implications of climate change, the more fossil fuels we burn. How did we end up in this mess? In this masterful new history, Andreas Malm claims it all began in Britain with the rise of steam power. But why did manufacturers turn from traditional sources of power, notably water mills, to an engine fired by coal? Contrary to established views, steam offered neither cheaper nor more abundant energy—but rather superior control of subordinate labor. Animated by fossil fuels, capital could concentrate production at the most profitable sites and during the most convenient hours, as it continues to do today. Sweeping from nineteenth-century Manchester to the emissions explosion in China, from the original triumph of coal to the stalled shift to renewables, this study hones in on the burning heart of capital and demonstrates, in unprecedented depth, that turning down the heat will mean a radical overthrow of the current economic order. “The definitive deep history on how our economic system created the climate crisis. Superb, essential reading from one of the most original thinkers on the subject.” —Naomi Klein, author of This Changes Everything and The Shock Doctrine

The Rise of Steam Power and the Roots of Global Warming

Fossil Capital

"The coronavirus pandemic and the climate crisis are inextricable. How can we strike at their shared roots?"--

War Communism in the Twenty-First Century

Corona, Climate, Chronic Emergency

Donna J. Haraway

Elmar Altvater

Christian Parenti

Daniel Hartley

Eileen C. Crist

The Earth has reached a tipping point. Runaway climate change, the sixth great extinction of planetary life, the acidification of the oceans--all point toward an era of unprecedented turbulence in humanity’s relationship within the web of life. But just what is that relationship, and how do we make sense of this extraordinary transition? Anthropocene or Capitalocene? offers answers to these questions from a dynamic group of leading critical scholars. They challenge the theory and history offered by the most significant environmental concept of our times: the Anthropocene. But are we living in the Anthropocene, literally the "Age of Man”? Is a different response more compelling, and better suited to the strange--and often terrifying--times in which we live? The contributors to this book diagnose the problems of Anthropocene thinking and propose an alternative: the global crises of the twenty-first century are rooted in the Capitalocene; not the Age of Man but the Age of Capital. Anthropocene or Capitalocene? offers a series of provocative essays on nature and power, humanity, and capitalism. Including both well-established voices and younger scholars, the book challenges the conventional practice of dividing historical change and contemporary reality into "Nature” and "Society,” demonstrating the possibilities offered by a more nuanced and connective view of human environment-making, joined at every step with and within the biosphere. In distinct registers, the authors frame their discussions within a politics of hope that signal the possibilities for transcending capitalism, broadly understood as a "world-ecology” that joins nature, capital, and power as a historically evolving whole. Contributors include Jason W. Moore, Eileen Crist, Donna J. Haraway, Andreas Malm, Elmar Altvater, Daniel Hartley, and Christian Parenti.

Nature, History, and the Crisis of Capitalism

Anthropocene Or Capitalocene?

The Zetkin Collective

Rising temperatures and the rise of the far right. What disasters happen when they meet? In the first study of the far right’s role in the climate crisis, White Skin, Black Fuel presents an eye-opening sweep of a novel political constellation, revealing its deep historical roots. Fossil-fuelled technologies were born steeped in racism. No one loved them more passionately than the classical fascists. Now right-wing forces have risen to the surface, some professing to have the solution—closing borders to save the nation as the climate breaks down. Epic and riveting, White Skin, Black Fuel traces a future of political fronts that can only heat up.

On the Danger of Fossil Fascism

White Skin, Black Fuel

"An attack on the idea that nature and society are impossible to distinguish from each other In a world careening towards climate chaos, nature is dead. It can no longer be separated from society. Everything is a blur of hybrids, where humans possess no exceptional agency that sets them apart from dead matter. But is it really so? In this blistering polemic and theoretical manifesto, Andreas Malm develops a contrary argument: in a warming world, nature comes roaring back, and it is more important than ever to distinguish between the natural and the social. Only with a unique agency attributed to humans can resistance become conceivable. Deflating several prominent currents in contemporary theory--constructionism, hybridism, new materialism, posthumanism--and submitting the influential work of Bruno Latour to particularly biting critique, Malm shows that action against fossil fuels is best served by a theory that takes nature, society and the dialectics between them very seriously indeed"--

Nature and Society in a Warming World

The Progress of this Storm

The Zetkin The Zetkin Collective

"This is the first study of the far right's role in the climate crisis, presenting an eye-opening sweep of a novel political constellation, revealing its deep historical roots"--

Shora Esmailian

Rising Workers and Threats of War

Iran on the Brink

An argument for bold action to halt climate destruction, adapted for young people from Andreas Malm’s best-selling book 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: the measures in unenforceable international agreements won’t halt our reliance on fossil fuels, or take the drastic steps humans need to take in order to keep our planet livable. What kinds of drastic steps are needed? What kind of bold actions can the climate justice begin using to bring a stop to climate destruction, and that can be employed alongside existing strategies of mass protest, awareness, and legal appeals? Why does our society consider profit for oil companies more important than the future of young people and the health of our shared environment? In this adaptation of Andreas Malm’s best-selling book on the need for a bolder, more confrontational climate justice movement, these urgent questions are brought to the most important audience of all: those who are growing up in a world on fire.

The Next Generation's Guide to Protecting the Climate and Saving Our Future

Fighting in a World on Fire

An attack on the idea that nature and society are impossible to distinguish from each other In a world careening towards climate chaos, nature is dead. It can no longer be separated from society. Everything is a blur of hybrids, where humans possess no exceptional agency to set them apart from dead matter. But is it really so? In this blistering polemic and theoretical manifesto, Andreas Malm develops a counterargument: in a warming world, nature comes roaring back, and it is more important than ever to distinguish between the natural and the social. Only with a unique agency attributed to humans can resistance become conceivable.

The Progress of This Storm

Hatet mot muslimer

»En av världens mest inflytelserika tänkare i frågor om klimat och kapital.« Ola Söderholm En stridsskrift från en av samtidens mest främsta röster i klimatfrågor Betydelsen av seklets första verkligt stora pandemi kan inte underskattas. Regeringar talar om krig, samtidigt som de säger att allt snart ska bli som vanligt. Men tänk om normaliteten inte längre är möjlig? Om världen trots allt kan mobilisera sig på det vis som den gjorde våren 2020, borde det även vara möjligt att konfrontera den förödelse som utgör klimatförändringarna. Corona, klimatet och det kroniska nödläget är en stridsskrift från en av världens främsta tänkare i frågor om människans överlevnad. Andreas Malm kräver att tidens krigstillstånd införs på permanent basis, för att möta en större och farligare fiende. Det finns inte längre tid för förnekelse. ANDREAS MALM [f. 1977] är fil dr. i humanekologi vid Lunds universitet, författare och politisk aktivist. De senaste två decennierna har han undersökt och debatterat klimatfrågan. Boken Stormens utveckling, allmänt uppfattad som en av vår tids definierande klimatskrifter, har också den nyligen utkommit på svenska. »Andreas Malm är en av vår tids mest relevanta tänkare. Han är också en stilist som förmår göra beskrivningen av kopplingarna mellan avskogning, uppvärmning, kokta myrkotteungar och utegångsförbud till njutbar läsning.« Helena Granström, Expressen »Andreas Malm belyser kopplingarna mellan klimatkris och pandemier. En intensiv polemik i kölvattnet av Covid-19.« New Statesman »Det sprakar om sidorna. En akut viktig bok.« Spectre

Corona, klimatet och det kroniska nödläget

Holly Jean Buck

J.P. Sapinski

Geoengineering is the deliberate and large-scale intervention in the Earth's climate system in an attempt to mitigate the adverse effects of global warming. Now that a climate emergency is upon us, claims that geoengineering is inevitable are rapidly proliferating. How did we get into this? What options make it onto the table? Which are left out? Whom does geoengineering serve? These are some of the questions that the thinkers contributing to this volume are exploring.

The Promises and Perils of Geoengineering on the Brink

Has It Come to This?

The Rise of Steam-power in the British Cotton Industry, C. 1825-1848, and the Roots of Global Warming

The economic and social impact of the coronavirus pandemic has been unprecedented. Governments have spoken of being at war and find themselves forced to seek new powers in order to maintain social order and prevent the spread of the virus. This is often exercised with the notion that we will return to normal as soon as we can. What if that is not possible? Secondly, if the state can mobilize itself in the face of an invisible foe like this pandemic, it should also be able to confront visible dangers such as climate destruction with equal force. In Corona, Climate, Chronic Emergency, leading environmental thinker, Andreas Malm demands that this war-footing state should be applied on a permanent basis to the ongoing climate front line. He offers proposals on how the climate movement should use this present emergency to make that case. There can be no excuse for inaction any longer.

How capitalism first promoted fossil fuels with the rise of steam power The more we know about the catastrophic implications of climate change, the more fossil fuels we burn. How did we end up in this mess? In this masterful new history, Andreas Malm claims it all began in Britain with the rise of steam power. But why did manufacturers turn from traditional sources of power, notably water mills, to an engine fired by coal? Contrary to established views, steam offered neither cheaper nor more abundant energy—but rather superior control of subordinate labour. Animated by fossil fuels, capital could concentrate production at the most profitable sites and during the most convenient hours, as it continues to do today. Sweeping from nineteenth-century Manchester to the emissions explosion in China, from the original triumph of coal to the stalled shift to renewables, this study hones in on the burning heart of capital and demonstrates, in unprecedented depth, that turning down the heat will mean a radical overthrow of the current economic order.

Die wissenschaftlichen Fakten bezüglich der Klimakrise, die Daten, die das Massenaussterben und die Erderwärmung beziffern, liegen auf dem Tisch, an dem führende Politikerinnen und Politiker regelmäßig zusammenkommen, um Klimaziele zu vereinbaren. Auf den Straßen vor den Tagungshotels und Regierungspalästen protestieren nicht erst seit gestern immer mehr Menschen. Sie starten Petitionskampagnen und sammeln Unterschriften. Trotzdem haben wir es mit einer nach wie vor boomenden Industrie für fossile Brennstoffe zu tun, die Gewinne steigen kontinuierlich. Ist es also an der Zeit, das kaputt zu machen, was uns kaputt machen wird? In diesem mitreißenden Manifest fordert Andreas Malm nichts weniger als die Eskalation: Wir müssen die Förderung fossiler Brennstoffe zum Stillstand bringen – mit unserem Handeln, unseren Körpern, mit allem, was uns zur Verfügung steht. In seiner historisch fundierten Lesart der Geschichte erfolgreicher sozialer Bewegungen – für das Frauenwahlrecht, gegen die Apartheid – zeigt Andreas Malm, dass jeder dieser Kämpfe Grenzen überschritten hat: Eigentum wurde zerstört, Infrastruktur angegriffen. Nur so konnte der notwendige Druck aufgebaut werden, um Veränderung voranzutreiben. Mit der Leidenschaft eines Aktivisten und dem Wissen eines Forschers diskutiert Andreas Malm das Spannungsfeld zwischen Gewaltfreiheit und direkter Aktion, Strategie und Taktik, Demokratie und sozialer Veränderung. Und zeigt uns, wie wir in einer Welt kämpfen können, die längst in Flammen steht.

Kämpfen lernen in einer Welt in Flammen

Wie man eine Pipeline in die Luft jagt

the Zetkin Collective

In recent years, the far right has done everything in its power to accelerate the heating: an American president who believes it is a hoax has removed limits on fossil fuel production. The Brazilian president has opened the Amazon and watched it burn. In Europe, parties denying the crisis and insisting on maximum combustion have stormed into office, from Sweden to Spain. On the brink of breakdown, the forces most aggressively promoting business-as-usual have surged – always in defense of white privilege, against supposed threats from non-white others. Where have they come from? The first study of the far right in the climate crisis, White Skin, Black Fuel: On the Danger of Fossil Fascism presents an eye-opening sweep of a novel political constellation, and reveals its deep historical roots. Fossil-fueled technologies were born steeped in racism. None loved them more passionately than the classical fascists. As such forces rise to the surface, some profess to have the solution – closing borders to save the climate. Epic and riveting, White Skin, Black Fuel traces a future of political fronts that can only heat up.

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