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New Yorker Hosts Activist Calling for 'Sabotage' of Things Contributing to Climate Change
A liberal activist openly advocating property damage and sabotage.
It sounds like terrorism to me. It's something Hamas or Al-Qaeda would say.
Environmental activist and professor Andreas Malm during an appearance on The New Yorker's podcast called for "intelligent sabotage" of things contributing to climate change.
In the episode titled "How to Blow Up a Pipeline" published Friday, Malm says, "if people in that region were to attack the construction equipment or blow up the pipeline before it's completed, I would be all in favor of that. I don't see how that property damage could be considered morally illegitimate given what we know of the consequence of such projects."
Malm, a professor from Lund University in Sweden, at one point mentioned that "a call for escalation, a call for the movement to diversify its tactics and move away from an exclusive focus on polite, gentle and perfectly peaceful civil disobedience" should be emphasized in the environmentalism movement.
"I am recommending that the movement continues with mass action and civil disobedience, but also opens up for property destruction."
A liberal activist openly advocating property damage and sabotage.
It sounds like terrorism to me. It's something Hamas or Al-Qaeda would say.