| HOW TO BLOW UP A PIPELINE Learning To Fight in a World On Fire Andreas Malm London: Verso, January 2021 |
Rating: 5.0 High |
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| ISBN-13 978-1839760259 | ||||
| ISBN-10 1839760257 | 200pp. | SC | $19.95 | |
| Page 66: | "Carbon locked into trees and soil escape when the flames pass through, as they now do more often..." |
| Number error: S/B "escapes". |
| Pages 71-72: | "In the wake of the First World War, European and American oil companies swooped down on the depots discovered in the Persian gulf." |
| Word choice: S/B "deposits". |
| Page 77: | "Iran lurches from one climate disaster to the next, has a ruling class of millionaire mullahs sitting on riches from oil and gas, leaves potentials for renewable energy untapped and boasts a sprawling tree of revolutionary politics, razed in the years after 1979." |
| Word choice: S/B "raised" since revolutionary politics did not diminish in Iran after 1979. |
| Page 86: | "Another study from the same year hones in on superyachts..." |
| Word choice: S/B "homes". |
| Page 99: | "The third rent out its cranes to cops so they could swing up in the air to catch the activists..." |
| Verb tense: S/B "rented" since the action described took place in the past. |
| Page 116: | "Yes, such diversity and plurality will open for internal tensions, which no movement that has altered the course of history has done without." |
| Usage: S/B "will open" or "will open up". |
| Page 157: | "The set-up would, for a start, inverse deep ecology: whereas the latter wants to wage war against civilisation and indeed humanity as such, the former would fight for the possibility of civilisation, in the sense of organised social life fro Homo sapiens." |
| Missing word: S/B "The set-up would, for a start, be". I would also swap "latter" and "former." |
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