‘How to Blow Up a Pipeline’ Turns Fossil Fuels Into a Movie Villain
Inspired by Andreas Malm’s climate-activism manifesto, the film adaptation brings a motley crew together to sabotage a Texas oil pipeline.
In How to Blow Up a Pipeline, environmental activists plan to sabotage an oil pipeline.
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Andreas Malm is not a household name, except in certain circles. A professor of human ecology at Lund University in Sweden, he is also the author of How to Blow Up a Pipeline, a slim manifesto in which Malm lays out a radical case for climate action:
In his book, Malm makes clear that any attack should be on “luxury” emissions and not “subsistence” emissions: Aston Martins are fair game; ambulances are not. And he doesn’t offer explicit instructions for exploding things so much as an argument for aggressive action, one convincing enough that director Daniel Goldhaber developed a movie version (now in theaters) in which a motley crew joins forces to blow up an oil pipeline in Texas.