NEW EPISODE: Has the World Surrendered to Climate Breakdown? Andreas Malm, author of "How to Blow Up a Pipeline"

Ed and David chat with special guest Andreas Malm, author of How the World Surrendered to Climate Breakdown and How to Blow Up a Pipeline: Learning to Fight in a World on Fire.

They discuss Malm’s critiques of climate inaction—how liberal democracies, fossil capital, and the Global North have collectively abandoned meaningful efforts to stop climate breakdown—and what comes next for movement strategy, the ethics and effectiveness of disruption, and what kind of climate action might actually work in the next crucial decade.

Show Notes:

01:05 - Andreas Malm, Associate Professor, Sweden's Lund University

01:10 - How to Blow Up a Pipeline by Andreas Malm

01:15 - Overshoot: How the World Surrendered to Climate Breakdown by Andreas Malm and Wim Carton

01:20 - Wim Carton, Professor, Sweden’s Lund University

02:15 - The Long Heat: Climate Politics When It’s Too Late by Andreas Malm and Wim Carton (forthcoming)

02:35 - The Long Thaw by David Archer

02:35 - David Archer (climate scientist, author)

03:40 - Holly Jean Buck, Environmental scholar, geoengineering expert

03:45 - Adrian Abikos, French diplomat, Overshoot Commission

03:50 - Kim Campbell, former Canadian Prime Minister, Overshoot Commission

07:15 - AfD (German far-right party)

10:10 - International Energy Agency (IEA) World Energy Investment 2024 Report

13:20 - IEA Net Zero by 2025: “No new oil and gas fields approved for development; no new coal mines or mine extensions”

13:50 - “The Petro government’s big gamble on ending fossil fuel licensing” by Guy Edwards

22:05 - Rystad Energy 

22:05 - McKinsey & Company

22:18 - Global Carbon Project

28:30 - Fridays for Future (youth climate protest movement)

28:35 - Extinction Rebellion (XR)

29:22 - Les Soulèvements de la Terre (France's vibrant environmental movement)

33:08 - Repsol (Spanish fossil fuel company expanding in Venezuela)

41:00 - Climeworks (DAC company facing performance issues)

42:05 - Kim Stanley Robinson

About Our Guest:

Andreas Malm is an associate professor of human ecology at Lund University. His latest book, with Wim Carton, is The Long Heat: Climate Politics When It's Too Late, forthcoming from Verso in October.

About Your EvC Co-Hosts:

David Keith is Professor and Founding Faculty Director, Climate Systems Engineering Initiative at the University of Chicago. He is the founder of Carbon Engineering and was formerly a professor at Harvard University and the University of Calgary. He splits his time between Canmore and Chicago.

Sara Hastings-Simon studies energy transitions at the intersection of policy, business, and technology. She’s a policy wonk, a physicist turned management consultant, and a professor at the University of Calgary and Director of the Master of Science in Sustainable Energy Development.

Ed Whittingham is a clean energy policy/finance professional specializing in renewable electricity generation and transmission, carbon capture, carbon removal and low carbon transportation. He is a Public Policy Forum fellow and formerly the executive director of the Pembina Institute, a national clean energy think tank.

Produced by Amit Tandon & Bespoke Podcasts

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