The climate activist drama "How to Blow Up a Pipeline" just got even more punk rock. The film, which is based on a nonfiction book of the same name published in 2021, caught the attention of the FBI and other law enforcement agencies with its supposed ecoterrorist message. Rolling Stone reported that on April 6, the FBI's Weapons of Mass Destruction Directorate posted a bulletin warning of the film's potential to inspire environmentalist revolt targeting "oil and gas infrastructure with explosives or other destructive devices." The FBI, along with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco Firearms, and Explosives Agency, continued to issue warnings about the potential threat of the Neon theatrical release.
The source material, written by Lund University associate professor of human ecology Andreas Malm, does indeed make the case that property damage is a valid form of climate activism and that pacifism may be a hindrance to the environmentalist movement. However,...
The source material, written by Lund University associate professor of human ecology Andreas Malm, does indeed make the case that property damage is a valid form of climate activism and that pacifism may be a hindrance to the environmentalist movement. However,...
- 4/21/2023
- by Andrew Housman
- Slash Film
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