Fighting in a World on Fire

The Next Generation's Guide to Protecting the Climate and Saving Our Future

Andreas Malm

• Publisher: Verso
• Year: 2023
• eBook ISBN:
  9781804291276
• Print ISBN:
  9781804291252

Young 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. As 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.

What kinds of drastic steps are needed? What kind of bold actions can the climate justice 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?

In this adaptation of Andreas Malm's best-selling book on the need for a bolder, more confrontational climate justice movement, How to Blow Up a Pipeline these urgent questions are brought to the most important audience of all: those who are growing up in a world on fire.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Halftitle Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Foreword: Why Adapt this Book for the Next Generation?
• 1. The Problem with Business-as-Usual
• 2. Learning from Past Struggles
• 3. Breaking the Spell
• 4. Fighting Despair
• Find Out More
• Writing Prompts and Group Discussion Questions
• Image Credits