{"title":"Books by Andreas Malm","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9781784781293","title":"Fossil Capital","description":"\u003cb\u003eA sweeping study of how capitalism first promoted fossil fuels with the rise of steam power—and contributed to the worsening climate crisis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The more we know about the catastrophic implications of climate change, the more fossil fuels we burn. How did we end up in this mess? In this masterful new history, Andreas Malm claims it all began in Britain with the rise of steam power. But why did manufacturers turn from traditional sources of power, notably water mills, to an engine fired by coal? Contrary to established views, steam offered neither cheaper nor more abundant energy—but rather superior control of subordinate labor. Animated by fossil fuels, capital could concentrate production at the most profitable sites and during the most convenient hours, as it continues to do today.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Sweeping from nineteenth-century Manchester to the emissions explosion in China, from the original triumph of coal to the stalled shift to renewables, this study hones in on the burning heart of capital and demonstrates, in unprecedented depth, that turning down the heat will mean a radical overthrow of the current economic order.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The definitive deep history on how our economic system created the climate crisis. Superb, essential reading from one of the most original thinkers on the subject.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Naomi Klein, author of \u003ci\u003eThis Changes Everything\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Shock Doctrine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56304213983605,"sku":"9781784781293","price":22.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781784781293_e68132ca-033e-47f9-99f7-55563c83efa6.jpg?v=1786026040"},{"product_id":"9781804293980","title":"Overshoot","description":"\u003cb\u003eA scathing critique of proposals to geoengineer our way out of climate disaster by the bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eHow to Blow Up a Pipeline\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt might soon be far too hot on this planet. What do we do then? In the era of \"overshoot,\" schemes abound for turning down the heat–not now, but a few decades down the road. We’re being told that we can return to liveable temperatures by means of technologies for removing CO2 from the air or blocking incoming sunlight.If they even exist, such technologies are not safe.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThey come with immense uncertainties and risks. Worse, like magical promises of future redemption, they might provide reasons for continuing to emit in the present. But do they also hold some potentials? In \u003ci\u003eOvershoot\u003c\/i\u003e two leading climate scholars subject the plans for saving the planet after it’s been wrecked to critical study. Carbon dioxide removal is already having effects, as an excuse for continuing business as usual, while geoengineering promises to bail out humanity if the heat reaches critical levels.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBoth distract from the one urgent task: to slash emissions \u003ci\u003enow\u003c\/i\u003e. There can be no further delay. The climate revolution is long overdue, and in the end, no technology can absolve us of its tasks.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":57685895020917,"sku":"9781804299906","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":56306930319733,"sku":"9781804293980","price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781804299906_689b2924-8c12-4131-9154-c53506fa4b54.jpg?v=1792599125"},{"product_id":"9781836740070","title":"The Destruction of Palestine Is the Destruction of the Earth","description":"\u003cb\u003eMalm unearths the shared roots of colonial adventurism in Palestine and fossil fuelled warfare.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIsrael’s pulverization of Gaza since October 7, 2023 is not only a humanitarian crisis, but an environmental catastrophe. Far from the first event of its kind, the devastation Israel has inflicted on Palestine since October 2023 has merely ushered in a new phase in a long history of colonization and extraction that reaches back to the nineteenth century. In this urgent pamphlet, Andreas Malm argues that a true understanding of the present crisis requires a longue durée analysis of Palestine's subjugation to fossil empire. Returning to the British empire’s first use of steam-power in war, in which it destroyed the Palestinian city of Akka, Malm traces the development of Britain’s fossil empire and shows how this enduring commitment to fossil energy continues to drive Western support for the destruction of Palestine today.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56307429441909,"sku":"9781836740070","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781836740070_962d9d5d-dd18-4594-8fbf-c16f6df2ab07.jpg?v=1786028359"},{"product_id":"9781804291252","title":"Fighting in a World on Fire","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn argument for bold action to halt climate destruction, adapted for young people from Andreas Malm’s best-selling book\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYoung people are inheriting a world of climate catastrophe. Young people are also one of the strongest forces leading movements for climate justice, and to halt the fossil fuel emissions that are making our Earth unlivable.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eAs Greta Thunberg and the Fridays for the Future movement have made clear, solutions offered by adults are far too little, far too late: the measures in unenforceable international agreements won’t halt our reliance on fossil fuels, or take the drastic steps humans need to take in order to keep our planet livable.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat kinds of drastic steps are needed? What kind of bold actions can the climate justice movement begin using to bring a stop to climate destruction, and that can be employed alongside existing strategies of mass protest, awareness, and legal appeals? Why does our society consider profit for oil companies more important than the future of young people and the health of our shared environment?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this adaptation of Andreas Malm’s best-selling book on the need for a bolder, more confrontational climate justice movement, these urgent questions are brought to the most important audience of all: those who are growing up in a world on fire.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56307636863349,"sku":"9781804291252","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781804291252_db1f34bd-38ee-4f34-8f3c-7c4775b24044.jpg?v=1786026704"},{"product_id":"9781836740308","title":"The Long Heat","description":"\u003cb\u003eA scathing critique of proposals to geoengineer our way out of climate disaster, by the bestselling authors of \u003ci\u003eOvershoot\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe world is crossing the 1.5°C global warming limit, perhaps exceeding 2°C soon after. What is to be done when these boundaries, set by the Paris Agreement, have been passed? In the overshoot era, schemes proliferate for muscular adaptation or for new technologies to turn the heat down at a later date by re­moving CO2 from the air or blocking sunlight. Such technologies are by no means safe; they come with immense risks and provide an excuse for those who would prefer to avoid limiting emissions in the present. But do they also hold out some potential? Can the catastrophe be reversed, masked or simply adapted to once it is a fact? Or will any such round­about measures simply make things worse?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Long Heat \u003c\/i\u003emaps the new front lines in the struggle for a liveable planet and insists on the climate revolution long overdue. 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With the stakes  so high, why haven't we moved beyond peaceful protest?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOffering a counter-history of how mass popular change has occurred,  from the democratic revolutions overthrowing dictators to the movement  against apartheid and for women's suffrage, Malm argues that the  strategic acceptance of property destruction and violence has been the  only route for revolutionary change. In a braided narrative that moves from the forests of Germany and the streets of London to the deserts of Iraq, Malm offers us an incisive discussion of the politics and ethics of pacifism and violence, democracy and social change, strategy and tactics, and a movement compelled by both the heart and the mind. Here is how we fight in a world on fire.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56308017987957,"sku":"9781839760259","price":11.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781839760259_2f47ee23-9067-413e-af16-01f7c84a945a.jpg?v=1786027769"},{"product_id":"9781839761744","title":"White Skin, Black Fuel","description":"\u003cb\u003eRising temperatures and the rise of the far right. 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