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“So here is what this movement of millions should do, for a start: announce and enforce the prohibition. Damage and destroy new CO2-emitting devices. Put them out of commission, pick them apart, demolish them, burn them, blow them up. Let the capitalists who keep on investing in the fire know that their properties will be trashed.”
― Andreas Malm, How to Blow Up a Pipeline

“The oil being taken out of the ground and the machinery that does it and the infrastructure which supports it – this is violent’,”
― Andreas Malm, How to Blow Up a Pipeline

“Property destruction still happens – it’s just done by the wrong people for very wrong causes.”
― Andreas Malm, How to Blow Up a Pipeline

“Climate fatalism is for those on top; its sole contribution is spoilage. The most religiously Gandhian climate activist, the most starry-eyed renewable energy entrepreneur, the most self-righteous believer in veganism as panacea, the most compromise-prone parliamentarian is infinitely preferable to the white man of the North who says, ‘We’re doomed – fall in peace.’ Within the range of positions this side of climate denial, none is more despicable.”
― Andreas Malm, How to Blow Up a Pipeline