Andreas Malm

Malm initially worked as a journalist. In 2014, Malm obtained a PhD in social and economic geography from Lund University with a thesis on Fossil Capital: The Rise of Steam-Power in the British Cotton Industry, c. 1825–1848, and the Roots of Global Warming, supervised by and examined by Timothy Mitchell. He released a reworked version of his thesis as Fossil Capital, published by Verso Books. Malm has authored several books and is a contributor to the magazine Jacobin. In his book How to Blow Up a Pipeline: Learning to Fight in a World on Fire, published in 2021, he argued that sabotage and property damage are logical components of the movement against human-caused climate change. The book was adapted into the 2022 narrative film How to Blow Up a Pipeline. In The Guardian, the geographer Brett Christophers wrote that Malm's research suggests that manufacturers during the Industrial Revolution switched from water power to steam not because steam was cheaper but because it was more profitable. In particular, steam allowed prime movers to be near cheap labor rather than bound to suitable waterways. In September 2021, Malm was a guest on The New Yorker Radio Hour, where he echoed the central claim of How to Blow Up a Pipeline by advocating that the climate movement use sabotage as a tactic and embrace a diversity of tactics. == Books ==

• Bulldozers mot ett folk. Om ockupationen av Palestina och det svenska sveket, published 2002 by Agora (Stockholm), • Iran on the Brink: Rising Workers and Threats of War, written with , published 2007 by Pluto Press • Hatet mot muslimer, published by Atlas (Stockholm), 2009, • Fossil Capital: The Rise of Steam Power and the Roots of Global Warming, published 2016 by Verso Books and awarded the Deutscher Memorial Prize • The Progress of This Storm: Nature and Society in a Warming World, published 2017 by Verso Books • Corona, Climate, Chronic Emergency: War Communism in the Twenty-First Century, published 2020 by Verso Books • How to Blow Up a Pipeline: Learning to Fight in a World on Fire, published 2021 by Verso Books • White Skin, Black Fuel: On the Danger of Fossil Fascism, written with The Zetkin Collective, published 2021 by Verso Books • Overshoot: How the World Surrendered to Climate Breakdown, written with Wim Carton, published 2024 by Verso Books • The Destruction of Palestine Is the Destruction of the Earth, published 2025 by Verso Books • ''The Long Heat: Climate politics When It's Too Late'', written with Wim Carton, published 2025 by Verso Books == See also ==