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New Yorker hosts environmental extremist calling for eco-terrorism, pipeline bombings<\/a><\/p>\n

In the name of climate activism,\u00a0The New Yorker<\/em>\u00a0has\u00a0provided a platform<\/a> for a far-left environmental extremist on its weekly podcast show.”How To Blow Up A Pipeline” author<\/a>\u00a0Andreas Malm, an\u00a0associate senior lecturer<\/a>\u00a0of human ecology at Lund University, was invited on\u00a0Friday’s episode<\/a>\u00a0of\u00a0The New Yorker Radio Hour<\/em>, where the professor’s impassioned calls for eco-terrorism were amplified by the establishment outlet’s radio program.<\/section>\n
Pontificating on how to save the planet from the fossil fuel industry,\u00a0The New Yorker<\/em>\u00a0guest implored the environmental movement to embrace violence.<\/section>\n
Malm, who\u00a0sits on the editorial board<\/a>\u00a0of the academic journal\u00a0Historical Materialism<\/em>, told\u00a0The New Yorker\u00a0<\/em>editor and radio host<\/a> David Remnick that it’s time for the climate change movement to “diversify its tactics and move away from an exclusive focus on polite, gentle, and perfectly peaceful civil disobedience.”https:\/\/twitter.com\/JerylBier\/status\/1441967305089601536<\/section>\n

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While he “wouldn’t recommend” kidnapping oilworkers, Malm,\u00a0a described Marxist<\/a>, defined “civil disobedience” in the 20-minute segment as mass acts of “intelligent sabotage” and “property destruction,” such as exploding pipelines.<\/section>\n
“I’m not saying we should stop strikes or square occupations or demonstrations of the usual kind. I’m all in favor of that,” Malm stated, before echoing the book’s central claim. “But I do think we need to step up because so little has changed and so many investments are still being poured into new fossil fuel projects.”<\/section>\n
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Malm said he’s “in favor of destroying machines, property” but not harming people, which is “a very, very important distinction there,” he noted.<\/section>\n
“And I think property can be destroyed in all manner of ways, or it can be neutralized in a very gentle fashion as when we defeated the SUVs, or in a more spectacular fashion, as in potentially blowing up a pipeline that’s under construction. That’s something that people have done,” Malm stated.<\/section>\n
Remnick confirmed, “So you’re recommending blowing up a pipeline.”<\/section>\n
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Malm attempted to justify the violence by claiming that the purported moral pros of combatting the “climate crisis” outweigh the ethical cons.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
“I don’t see how that property damage could be considered morally illegitimate, given what we know of the consequences of such a project,” Malm said.<\/section>\n
Malm pledged “to be part of any kind of action of the sort” that he advocated in his book. Remnick’s guest then castigated the climate change movement’s “dogmatic commitment” to nonviolent protest that he said is “based on a faulty history writing or understanding of social struggles over history.”<\/section>\n
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The Swedish author went on to say that nonviolent demonstration is founded on the idea that “the only thing that has ever worked for social movements is to stay completely peaceful and that just isn’t the case,” Malm argued.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
Malm compared the climate change movement to the “largely peaceful” Black Lives Matter riots that followed George Floyd’s death in May last year.<\/section>\n
“I don’t think that anyone could seriously argue that the BLM movement in 2020 would have achieved more if there had been no confrontations, no windows smashed, no police stations or cars burnt,” he said, calling it “a fantasy scenario.”<\/section>\n
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Vox<\/em>\u00a0co-founder Ezra Klein tried to excuse Malm’s repeated suggestions for terrorist bombings of oil pipelines in\u00a0a July 15 column<\/a>\u00a0titled, “It Seems Odd That We Would Just Let the World Burn,” for\u00a0The New York Times<\/em>.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
After reading Malm’s book\u2014which is not an explicit DIY guide\u2014Klein wrote, “You won’t find, anywhere inside, instructions on sabotaging energy infrastructure.”<\/section>\n
“A truer title would be ‘Why to Blow Up a Pipeline.’ On this, Malm’s case is straightforward: Because nothing else has worked,” Klein penned.<\/section>\n
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