Andreas Malm author page

Andreas Malm biography

Andreas Malm is a Swedish author, academic and climate activist. He serves as an associate professor of human ecology at Lund University, Sweden, and sits on the editorial board of the journal Historical Materialism.

He earned his PhD in 2014 from Lund University with a thesis titled Fossil Capital: The Rise of Steam-Power in the British Cotton Industry, c. 1825–1848, and the Roots of Global Warming, later published in revised form in 2016. The book examines how the rise of steam-powered industry contributed to global warming and received the Deutscher Memorial Prize.

Malm has since authored several non-fiction works including The Progress of This Storm (2017), Corona, Climate, Chronic Emergency (2020), How to Blow Up a Pipeline: Learning to Fight in a World on Fire (2021), and White Skin, Black Fuel (2021, co-authored). In 2024 he co-wrote Overshoot: How the World Surrendered to Climate Breakdown with Wim Carton, and in 2025 released The Destruction of Palestine Is the Destruction of the Earth.

How to Blow Up a Pipeline was adapted into a feature film that premiered at the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival.

In January 2025, Malm published The Destruction of Palestine Is the Destruction of the Earth with Verso Books.