Archive of How to Blow Up a Pipeline

The ultra-rich have decided that it’s the very poor who are trashing the planet.

Politicians are struggling to find words in the face of the ecological disaster, but as Christian Salmon notes, this crisis is only the latest in a long series of shocks that have permanently undermined our ability to propose coherent narratives.

"This is an experiment for Verso" – Sebastian Budgen, Editorial Director.

Utopian thinking for a different world.

A reading list around how different theories of the climate crisis shape our understanding of what must be done.

Featuring Andreas Malm, Ann Pettifor, George Monbiot, and more.

We need radical ideas and systemic change to combat the urgent threat of climate disaster. This reading list of eco-utopian thinking can help guide us.

Books that terrify the far-right!

How can we develop a theory and practice of ecological counterpower that is commensurate to the coming catastrophe? Davide Gallo Lassere on the limits of Andreas Malm's ecological Leninism. 

In a series of two articles, Davide Gallo Lassere explores the history and present state of global warming, fossil fuels and Covid-19 in critical dialogue with Andreas Malm's eco-Marxism.