A review by augur01
How to Blow Up a Pipeline by Andreas Malm

4.5

Challenging but worthwhile. I was pleasantly surprised by how much philosophy was included in this book which I originally thought was mainly going to argue along historical and political lines. Required reading.

"Imagination is a pivotal faculty here. The climate crisis unfolds through a series of interlocked absurdities ingrained in it: not only is it easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism, or the deliberate, large-scale intervention in the climate system — what we refer to as geoengineering — than in the economic system; it is also easier, at least for some, to imagine learning to die than learning to fight, to reconcile oneself to the end of everything one holds dear than to consider some militant resistance."