Normalizing eco-terror
March 2nd, 2024
A young girl in a hoodie draws a knife, kneels beside an SUV, and slashes two of its tires. She slaps a paper on the windshield — “Why I sabotaged your property.”
This is the opening scene of a movie you can stream right now on Hulu, or rent from Amazon, called “How To Blow Up a Pipeline.” It is adapted from a book by the same name.
Here’s the book blurb on Amazon:
In this lyrical manifesto, noted climate scholar (and saboteur of SUV tires and coal mines) Andreas Malm makes an impassioned call for the climate movement to escalate its tactics in the face of ecological collapse. We need, he argues, to force fossil fuel extraction to stop–with our actions, with our bodies, and by defusing and destroying its tools. We need, in short, to start blowing up some oil pipelines.
“We have to show how vulnerable the oil industry is by hitting something big, like a refinery,” says the hoodie-girl (looking to move up from slashing tires), “what do you know about Texas?” What do you know about building a bomb?” her friend replies.
Next scene they’re wiring a bomb.
https://www.cfact.org/2024/03/02/normalizing-eco-terror/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=normalizing-eco-terror&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=normalizing-eco-terror
