Malm Blows Up the Pipeline
Did left publications shy away from Malm’s book declaring war on polluters?
Over a year ago, I read a review of a book called, How To Blow Up A Pipeline by Andreas Malm. Malm, an academic, and activist in Europe, on climate disruption issues, wrote a book that blew me away mostly.
I downloaded the book immediately and read it in just a day or so. For the first time, I read a book that was a game changer in the climate disruption/change issue.
Malm, in one book, altered the conversation. Malm, to me, found the political solution: up the pressure much higher. Resort to violence perhaps? He doesn’t say that explicitly but he knows the general rule in public agitation and struggle: the squeakiest wheel gets the grease.
It is an impressive book with great arguments. But then there is another question that is more important: why did it take so long for many of the best magazines on the left/progressive end of the opinion spectrum to review the book?
The Progressive, my favorite, did not review the book at all yet. The Nation just reviewed it long after the book’s publication. The London Review of Books, though not necessarily left, but yet, a very inclusive publication just reviewed it.
