Andreas Malm
Malm giving a lecture atCode Rood Action Camp 2018 inGroningen
Born	1977 (age 48–49) Mölndal, Sweden
Occupations	Author, professor
Academic background
Alma mater	Lund University
Thesis	Fossil Capital: The Rise of Steam-Power in the British Cotton Industry, c. 1825–1848, and the Roots of Global Warming (2014)
Doctoral advisor	Alf Hornborg [sv]
Academic work
School or tradition	Marxism
Institutions	Lund University
Main interests	Climate change

Andreas Malm (born 1977^[1]) is a Swedish^[2] journalist and academic, who holds anassociate professorship inhuman ecology atLund University.^[3][4] He is a member of the editorial board of the scholarly journalHistorical Materialism^[5] and has been described as aMarxist.^[6]

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

Malm initially worked as a journalist.^[1] As part of his association with theCentral Organisation of Swedish Workers (SAC), he was active in theSwedish 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 SwedishSocialist Party in 1997, he joined it in 2010.^[8]

In 2014, Malm obtained a PhD insocial andeconomic geography fromLund University with a thesis onFossil Capital: The Rise of Steam-Power in the British Cotton Industry, c. 1825–1848, and the Roots of Global Warming, supervised byAlf Hornborg [sv] and examined byTimothy Mitchell.^[9] He released a reworked version of his thesis asFossil Capital, published byVerso Books.^[10]

During a conference atStockholm 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 theHamas attacks against Israel on 7 October 2023.^[11][12][13]

Malm has authored several books and is a contributor to the magazineJacobin.^[3][14] In his bookHow to Blow Up a Pipeline: Learning to Fight in a World on Fire, published in 2021, he argued thatsabotage andproperty damage are logical components of the movement againsthuman-caused climate change.^[15] The book was adapted into the 2022 narrative filmHow to Blow Up a Pipeline.^[16]

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

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

• Bulldozers mot ett folk. Om ockupationen av Palestina och det svenska sveket, published 2002 by Agora (Stockholm),ISBN 9189483170
• Iran on the Brink: Rising Workers and Threats of War, written withShora Esmailian [sv], published 2007 byPluto Press^[20]
• Hatet mot muslimer, published by Atlas (Stockholm), 2009,ISBN 9789173893497
• Fossil Capital: The Rise of Steam Power and the Roots of Global Warming, published 2016 byVerso Books and awarded theDeutscher 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 withThe 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]

• Capitalocene – Term in climate politics
• Politics of climate change – Interaction of societies and governments with current climate change

• Trevor Jackson, "How to Blow Up a Planet" (review ofEzra Klein andDerek 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.

• Official page on Lund University website

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• Swedish Marxists
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