Andreas Malm

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Andreas Malm
Malm giving a lecture at Code Rood Action Camp 2018 in Groningen
Born1977 (age 48–49)
Mölndal, Sweden
OccupationsAuthor, professor
Academic background
Alma materLund University
ThesisFossil Capital: The Rise of Steam-Power in the British Cotton Industry, c. 1825–1848, and the Roots of Global Warming (2014)
Doctoral advisorAlf Hornborg (sv)
Academic work
School or traditionMarxism
InstitutionsLund University
Main interestsClimate change

Andreas Malm (born 1977[1]) is a Swedish[2] journalist and academic, who holds an associate professorship in human ecology at Lund University.[3][4] He is a member of the editorial board of the scholarly journal Historical Materialism[5] and has been described as a Marxist.[6]

Naomi Klein, who quoted Malm in her book This Changes Everything, has called him "one of the most original thinkers on the subject" of climate change.[7]

Biography

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Malm initially worked as a journalist.[1] As part of his association with the Central Organisation of Swedish Workers (SAC), he was active in the Swedish Anarcho-Syndicalist Youth Federation (SUF) around 2000 and wrote for the press organ of SAC, Arbetaren, for a number of years. Having attended a summer camp of the Swedish Socialist Party in 1997, he joined it in 2010.[8]

In 2014, Malm obtained a PhD in social and economic geography from Lund University with a thesis on Fossil Capital: The Rise of Steam-Power in the British Cotton Industry, c. 1825–1848, and the Roots of Global Warming, supervised by Alf Hornborg (sv) and examined by Timothy Mitchell.[9] He released a reworked version of his thesis as Fossil Capital, published by Verso Books.[10] In 2020, he was a visiting researcher at the Centre for Humanities and Social Change at the Humboldt University of Berlin.[1]

During a conference at Stockholm University in December 2023 on Palestinian resistance, Malm celebrated the "heroic armed resistance in Gaza". He thus expressed his “astonishment” and his “tears of joy” following the Hamas attacks against Israel on 7 October 2023.[11][12][13]

Malm has authored several books and is a contributor to the magazine Jacobin.[3][14] In his book How to Blow Up a Pipeline: Learning to Fight in a World on Fire, published in 2021, he argued that sabotage and property damage are logical components of the movement against human-caused climate change.[15] The book was adapted into the 2022 narrative film How to Blow Up a Pipeline.[16]

Psychoanalytic understanding of the climate crisis

     On the far right, you see this aggressive defense of cars and fossil fuels that verges on a desire for destruction, ... Denial is as central to the development of the climate crisis as the greenhouse effect.

—Andreas Malm in January, 2024[17]

In The Guardian, the geographer Brett Christophers wrote that Malm's research suggests that manufacturers during the Industrial Revolution switched from water power to steam not because steam was cheaper but because it was more profitable. In particular, steam allowed prime movers to be near cheap labor rather than bound to suitable waterways.[18]

In September 2021, Malm was a guest on The New Yorker Radio Hour, where he echoed the central claim of How to Blow Up a Pipeline by advocating that the climate movement use sabotage as a tactic and embrace a diversity of tactics.[19]

Books

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  • Iran on the Brink: Rising Workers and Threats of War, written with Shora Esmailian (sv), published 2007 by Pluto Press[20]
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  • Fossil Capital: The Rise of Steam Power and the Roots of Global Warming, published 2016 by Verso Books and awarded the Deutscher Memorial Prize[10][21]
  • The Progress of This Storm: Nature and Society in a Warming World, published 2017 by Verso Books[22]
  • Corona, Climate, Chronic Emergency: War Communism in the Twenty-First Century, published 2020 by Verso Books[23]
  • How to Blow Up a Pipeline: Learning to Fight in a World on Fire, published 2021 by Verso Books[24]
  • White Skin, Black Fuel: On the Danger of Fossil Fascism, written with The Zetkin Collective, published 2021 by Verso Books[25]
  • Overshoot: How the World Surrendered to Climate Breakdown, written with Wim Carton, published 2024 by Verso Books[26]
  • The Destruction of Palestine Is the Destruction of the Earth, published 2025 by Verso Books[27]
  • The Long Heat: Climate politics When It's Too Late, written with Wim Carton, published 2025 by Verso Books[28]

See also

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References

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Further reading

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  • Trevor Jackson, "How to Blow Up a Planet" (review of Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson, Abundance, Avid Reader, 2025, 288 pp.; and Andreas Malm and Wim Carton, Overshoot: How the World Surrendered to Climate Breakdown, Verso, 2025, 401 pp.), The New York Review of Books, vol. LXXII, no. 14 (25 September 2025), pp. 6, 8, 10, 12.
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