Where Should the Climate Movement Go Next? | The Nation

Andreas Malm thinks climate politics needs to reject pacifism for sabotage.

July 25, 2022 This article appears in the August 8/15, 2022 issue . Illustration by Tim Robinson. In 1957, as the postwar economic boom led to a “great acceleration” in hydrocarbon energy use, a group of scientists working for a Texas-based petroleum company called Humble Oil (later renamed ExxonMobil) embarked on a study prompted by growing public concern over air pollution and new research on the consequences of burning fossil fuels. What they found was that the “enormous quantity of carbon dioxide” in the atmosphere was linked to the “combustion of fossil fuels.” Sixty-five year

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