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Climate fatalism is for those on the top; its sole contributions is spoilage. The most religiously Gandhian climate activist, the most starry-eyed renewable energy entrepreneur, the most self-righteous believer in veganism as panacea, the most compromise-prone parliamentarian is infinitely preferable to the white man of the North who says, 'We're doomed – fall in peace.' Within the range of positions this side of climate denial, none is more despicable.

— How to Blow up a Pipeline by Andreas Malm (Page 104)

A climate fatalist of the Scranton-Franzen type (the self-sufficient hunter-farmer is a separate case) then projects this weakness of the flesh onto society, elevating the individual inability to change the established order to a universal fact. It is easier to imagine the end of the world than me skipping a filet mignon.

— How to Blow up a Pipeline by Andreas Malm (Page 98)

The weather is already political, but it is political from one side only, blowing off the steam built up by the enemy, who is not made to feel the heat or take the blame.

— How to Blow up a Pipeline by Andreas Malm (Page 82)

The task of climate activists cannot be to take an existing level of consciousness as a given, but rather to stretch it. They should walk ahead – not too far from the masses, which would lead to isolation; nor in the median or rear, which would obviate their mission.

— How to Blow up a Pipeline by Andreas Malm (Page 82)

We should posit a law of a tendency of the receptivity to rise in a rapidly warming world; anything else would be to presume a species-wide death wish.

— How to Blow up a Pipeline by Andreas Malm (Page 81)

'No one, rich or poor', can have something like a right to emit because all emissions must be brought to zero in no time. Luckily, this does not condemn the poor to eternal poverty, for what they need is not emissions but energy, and with the renewable kind cheaper across the board, the transition does not require the sacrifice of their material aspirations. But where does this leave the distinction between luxury and subsistence emissions? Has it now lost its relevance?

— How to Blow up a Pipeline by Andreas Malm (Page 63)

Property destruction still happens – it's just done by the wrong people for very wrong causes.

— How to Blow up a Pipeline by Andreas Malm (Page 56)

Property will cost us the earth.

— How to Blow up a Pipeline by Andreas Malm (Page 49)