{{Short description|2021 nonfiction book by Andreas Malm}} {{about|the book|the film of the same name|How to Blow Up a Pipeline (film){{!}}''How to Blow Up a Pipeline'' (film)}} {{good article}} {{Use mdy dates|date=April 2021}} {{Infobox book | name = How to Blow Up a Pipeline: Learning to Fight in a World on Fire | author = Andreas Malm | isbn = 1-839-76025-7 | pages = 208 | pub_date = January 5, 2021 | publisher = Verso Books | image = File:How to Blow Up a Pipeline (Cover).jpg | image_size = | dewey = 363 | congress = TD170 .M34 2021 }}
'''''How to Blow Up a Pipeline: Learning to Fight in a World on Fire''''' is a nonfiction book written by Andreas Malm and published in 2021 by Verso Books. In the book, Malm argues that sabotage is a logical form of climate activism, and criticizes both pacifism within the climate movement and "climate fatalism" outside it. The book inspired a film of the same name.
Andreas Malm, a lecturer in human ecology at Lund University, wrote several other books on related subjects before his release of ''How to Blow Up a Pipeline''. Prior to events in 2018 and 2019 including Fridays For Future and climate protest camps in Europe, the book was planned to be an argument that there was a lack of climate activism. These events caused the argument to become a critique of nonviolence and pacifism in the climate activist movement, and an argument for sabotage as a logical form of climate activism.
The book received both positive and negative reviews in various publications.
== Background == [[File:Andreas Malm at Code Rood 2018.jpg|thumb|Andreas Malm giving a lecture at Code Rood Action Camp 2018 in Groningen]] Before the release of ''How to Blow Up a Pipeline'', author Andreas Malm had written several other books related to political economy, climate change, and fossil fuels; all were published by Verso Books. As of the book's publication, he was a lecturer in the human ecology department of Lund University.<ref name=":3">{{Cite web|last=Lossin|first=R.H.|date=February 9, 2021|title=Bookforum talks with Andreas Malm about his new book, How to Blow Up a Pipeline|url=https://www.bookforum.com/interviews/bookforum-talks-with-andreas-malm-about-his-new-book-how-to-blow-up-a-pipeline-learning-to-fight-in-a-world-on-fire-24359|url-status=live|access-date=2021-09-13|website=Bookforum|language=en-US|archive-date=September 13, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210913015252/https://www.bookforum.com/interviews/bookforum-talks-with-andreas-malm-about-his-new-book-how-to-blow-up-a-pipeline-learning-to-fight-in-a-world-on-fire-24359}}</ref>
Malm told ''Bookforum'' that he had been studying Ancient Egypt in the first half of 2018, but stopped spending time on that research later that year because he felt a need to focus on climate change, stating that he "was in total despair mode". When he began work on ''How to Blow Up a Pipeline'', he expected to argue that there was a lack of climate activism. However, after the start of Fridays For Future in 2018 and the spread of climate protest camps in Germany and throughout Europe in 2019, Malm described feeling "elated and encouraged by the wave of activism" but frustrated by the climate movement's "strict commitment to absolute nonviolence". The book instead became a critique of nonviolence and pacifism within the movement,<ref name=":3" /> and an argument that sabotage is a logical form of climate activism.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|last=Hurst|first=Phoebe|date=February 4, 2021|title=The Limits of Peaceful Protest in a World That Is Burning|url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/andreas-malm-climate-protest/|url-status=live|access-date=2021-04-18|website=Vice News|language=en|archive-date=April 18, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210418034933/https://www.vice.com/en/article/k7ak33/andreas-malm-climate-protest}}</ref><ref name=":2">{{Cite web|last=DeChristopher|first=Tim|author-link=Tim DeChristopher|date=February 16, 2021|title=In a World on Fire, Is Nonviolence Still an Option?|url=https://www.yesmagazine.org/issue/ecological-civilization/2021/02/16/climate-is-nonviolence-still-an-option|url-status=live|access-date=2021-04-18|website=YES! Magazine|language=en-US|archive-date=February 17, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210217033012/https://www.yesmagazine.org/issue/ecological-civilization/2021/02/16/climate-is-nonviolence-still-an-option/}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Beuret |first=Nick |date=2022 |title=What Will It Take for the Climate Movement to Win? |url=https://commonslibrary.org/what-will-it-take-for-the-climate-movement-to-win/ |url-status=live |access-date=2022-06-23 |website=Commons Social Change Library |archive-date=June 23, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220623074712/https://commonslibrary.org/what-will-it-take-for-the-climate-movement-to-win/ }}</ref>
''How to Blow Up a Pipeline'' was published on January 5, 2021, by Verso Books.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|last=Malm|first=Andreas|title=How to Blow Up a Pipeline: Learning to Fight in a World on Fire|date=January 5, 2021|publisher=Verso Books|isbn=978-1-83976-025-9|location=|oclc=1141142279}}</ref>
== Synopsis == The book is divided into three chapters, titled ''Learning from Past Struggles'', ''Breaking the Spell'', and ''Fighting Despair''. It also includes a preface.<ref name=":0" />{{Rp|Contents}}
=== ''Learning from Past Struggles'' === [[File:Extinction Rebellion swarming Ebertstraße 2019-10-07 05.jpg|alt=<nowiki>Extinction Rebellion protesters block a street in Germany holding a banner and signs</nowiki>|thumb|Extinction Rebellion protesters block Ebertstraße in October 2019 with a banner that reads "Non Violent - For Life On Earth"]] In the first chapter, Malm describes a protest in which he participated outside the COP1 United Nations climate conference in 1995.<ref name=":1" /> He asks "At what point do we escalate?",<ref name=":0" />{{Rp|8}} stating that the modern climate movement has remained committed to "absolute non-violence" and avoided property destruction.<ref name=":0" />{{Rp|22–23}} He criticizes what he defines as "moral pacifism" for failing to account for defensive violence<ref name=":0" />{{Rp|30–32}} and argues that "strategic pacifism" as advocated by Bill McKibben and Extinction Rebellion is ahistorical, discussing the radical flank effect in the context of the civil rights movement and questioning whether there are "convincing reasons" to believe that "the struggle against fossil fuels{{nbsp}}... will succeed only on condition of utter peacefulness".<ref name=":0" />{{Rp|34–54}}
=== ''Breaking the Spell'' === In the second chapter, Malm states that the ruling class will not implement sufficient change to address climate change, and that the climate movement should sabotage devices that produce CO<sub>2</sub> emissions in order to discourage new investment in them.<ref name=":0" />{{Rp|67–69}} He references a 2005 report by the ''Pipeline and Gas Journal'' which described pipelines as "very easily sabotaged", and he describes a "long and venerable tradition of sabotaging fossil fuel infrastructure", referencing instances of sabotage in apartheid South Africa, by Palestinians, and in Nigeria among other examples. Malm questions why actions like this are not taken for the purposes of the climate, attributing that fact to the "general demise of revolutionary politics" and the "insufficient politicisation of the climate crisis".<ref name=":0" />{{Rp|70–76}} He characterizes property destruction as a type of violence but states that "we must insist on it being different in kind from the violence that hits a human (or an animal) in the face", subsequently arguing that violence "which hits material conditions necessary for subsistence" should be considered violence against people.<ref name=":0" />{{Rp|102–103}}
=== ''Fighting Despair'' === [[File:Im Kraftwerk schwarze Pumpe.jpg|thumb|Activists at the Schwarze Pumpe power station during Ende Gelände 2016]] In the third and final chapter, Malm argues against critics of collective climate activism like Jonathan Franzen and Roy Scranton,<ref name=":2" /> who Malm says are united by "a reification of despair", which he states is "an eminently understandable emotional response to the crisis, but unserviceable as a response for a politics in it". He describes this "climate fatalism" as a contradiction and a self-fulfilling prophecy, writing that "[the] more people who tell us that a radical reorientation is 'scarcely imaginable', the less imaginable it will be".<ref name=":0" />{{Rp|141–142}} He says that there is no scientific basis for the idea that action now will not have an effect on climate change, stating that people who "think that mitigation is meaningful only at a time when damage is yet to be done ... have misunderstood the basics of both climate science and movement".<ref name=":0" />{{Rp|144–146}} Malm describes Ende Gelände 2016, during which he and other activists blockaded the Schwarze Pumpe power station, writing that politicians and the media described the action as violent because the activists broke fences. He quotes ''The Wretched of the Earth'' by Frantz Fanon, stating that Fanon wrote violence "frees the native 'from his despair and inaction; it makes him fearless and restores his self-respect{{'"}}. He concludes that "There has been a time for a Gandhian climate movement; perhaps there might come a time for a Fanonian one. The breaking of fences may one day be seen as a very minor misdemeanour indeed."<ref name=":0" />{{Rp|158–161}}
== Cover == The cover of ''How to Blow Up a Pipeline'', designed by Chantal Jahchan, appeared as one of 12 on a list of "The Best Book Covers of 2021" assembled by Matt Dorfman, art director of ''The New York Times Book Review''.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Dorfman |first=Matt |date=2021-12-17 |title=The Best Book Covers of 2021 |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/17/books/the-best-book-covers-of-2021.html |url-status=live |access-date=2021-12-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220429230509/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/17/books/the-best-book-covers-of-2021.html |archive-date=April 29, 2022 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> It was additionally chosen by ''The Bookseller'' as one of the best covers of January 2021.<ref>{{Cite web |date=January 6, 2021 |title=Cover design round-up: January 2021 |url=https://www.thebookseller.com/insight/cover-design-round-january-2021-1231742 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211227190929/https://www.thebookseller.com/insight/cover-design-round-january-2021-1231742 |archive-date=December 27, 2021 |access-date=2021-12-27 |website=The Bookseller}}</ref>
==Reception==
=== Reviews === Journalist Wen Stephenson praised ''How to Blow Up a Pipeline'' in the ''Los Angeles Review of Books'', describing Malm's approach as "erudite and, above all, morally serious" and stating that the book "methodically dismantles the social movement doctrine of 'strategic nonviolence{{'"}}. He wrote that he expected the book to be dismissed by many as fringe or dangerous, but described that potential dismissal as "a very serious mistake".<ref>{{Cite web|last=Stephenson|first=Wen|date=2021-01-05|title=No Safe Options: A Conversation with Andreas Malm|url=https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/no-safe-options-a-conversation-with-andreas-malm/|url-status=live|access-date=2021-04-18|website=Los Angeles Review of Books|language=en-US|archive-date=April 20, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210420141240/https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/no-safe-options-a-conversation-with-andreas-malm/}}</ref> Also in the ''Los Angeles Review of Books'', Scott W. Stern wrote that Malm "makes a stirring moral case for the necessity of escalation" and described the book as "passionate, powerful, deeply flawed, and profoundly necessary", stating that it "may excite some readers, anger others, convince still others, and alienate many, but it is unlikely to be forgotten by a single one".<ref>{{Cite web|last=Stern|first=Scott W.|author-link=Scott W. Stern|date=2021-01-05|title=Sabotage Can Be Done Softly: On Andreas Malm's "How to Blow Up a Pipeline"|url=https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/sabotage-can-be-done-softly-on-andreas-malms-how-to-blow-up-a-pipeline/|url-status=live|access-date=2021-04-18|website=Los Angeles Review of Books|language=en-US|archive-date=April 18, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210418085025/https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/sabotage-can-be-done-softly-on-andreas-malms-how-to-blow-up-a-pipeline/}}</ref>
Writing in ''The New York Times Book Review'', Tatiana Schlossberg reviewed ''How to Blow Up a Pipeline'' as "compelling but frustrating", writing that violence is problematic because "ultimately it's impossible to control" and noting that the book did not actually include instructions for creating explosions.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Schlossberg|first=Tatiana|author-link=Tatiana Schlossberg|date=2021-01-22|title=Three Books Offer New Ways to Think About Environmental Disaster|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/22/books/review/scorched-earth-emmanuel-kreike-how-to-prepare-for-climate-change-david-pogue-how-to-blow-up-a-pipeline-andreas-malm.html|access-date=2021-04-18|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=April 22, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210422233102/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/22/books/review/scorched-earth-emmanuel-kreike-how-to-prepare-for-climate-change-david-pogue-how-to-blow-up-a-pipeline-andreas-malm.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
In a negative review in ''Canadian Dimension'', a left-wing magazine, James Wilt criticized the book for not discussing the potential repercussions of sabotage, describing that omission as "an astonishing abdication of responsibility". Wilt wrote that "to advocate for [property destruction] without any mention or planning for the inevitable backlash, particularly outside of situations of armed conflict, is to do the work of the carceral state for it".<ref>{{Cite web |last=Wilt |first=James |date=March 3, 2021 |title=How to blow up a movement: Andreas Malm's new book dreams of sabotage but ignores consequences |url=https://canadiandimension.com/articles/view/how-to-blow-up-a-movement-malms-new-book-dreams-of-sabotage-but-ignores-consequences |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210418085027/https://canadiandimension.com/articles/view/how-to-blow-up-a-movement-malms-new-book-dreams-of-sabotage-but-ignores-consequences |archive-date=April 18, 2021 |access-date=2021-04-18 |website=Canadian Dimension |language=en}}</ref>
In another negative review in ''Jacobin'', an American socialist magazine, Chris Maisano criticized the book for assuming that political violence could be controlled, saying that it "has a fundamentally interactive quality that Malm largely fails to account for, and under conditions of intense political contestation, it is all too easy to move from advocating violence against property to violence against people."<ref>{{Cite web |last=Maisano |first=Chris |date=July 29, 2023 |title=Don't Blow Up a Pipeline |url=https://jacobin.com/2023/07/climate-change-mass-politics-democracy-organizing-andreas-malm-bpra |access-date=2023-08-01 |website=Jacobin |language=en-US}}</ref>
=== By notable figures === A review by Tim DeChristopher in ''YES! Magazine'' said that ''How to Blow Up a Pipeline'' "offers a humble and nuanced case for how sabotaging fossil fuel infrastructure and machinery might be 'synergetic and complementary' to a movement largely centered around nonviolent mass mobilization".<ref name=":2" /> DeChristopher criticized the book for not explaining "how to avoid association with a rogue act of violence against humans if a sizable portion of the movement were to abandon the commitment to nonviolence", and praised Malm's "six-point analysis of why luxury emissions are the most strategic and symbolically important target", describing it as "so compelling that it’s hard to read this book without daydreaming about sabotaging the private jets of the ultra-rich". He wrote that "[one] of Malm's most important contributions in the book" is the final chapter in which Malm argues against the belief that it is too late for climate activism.<ref name=":2" />
In an opinion article in ''The New York Times'', columnist Ezra Klein wrote that "[a] truer title would be 'Why to Blow Up a Pipeline{{'"}}, characterizing Malm's answer as "[because] nothing else has worked". Stating that Malm was "less convincing" about "whether blowing up pipelines would work here, and now", Klein argued that there would likely be political consequences to sabotage, including imprisonment of climate activists as well as political repression.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Klein|first=Ezra|date=2021-07-15|title=It Seems Odd That We Would Just Let the World Burn|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/15/opinion/climate-change-energy-infrastructure.html|access-date=2021-09-13|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=September 12, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220912011235/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/15/opinion/climate-change-energy-infrastructure.html|url-status=live}}</ref> In ''The New Republic'', Benjamin Kunkel wrote that the book "does not explain ''how'' to blow up a pipeline so much as argue for ''why'' to do so", stating that Malm's argument "provokes a few natural objections" and concluding by agreeing with the author's position that individual political tactics should not be fetishized.<ref>{{Cite magazine|last=Kunkel|first=Benjamin|date=2021-05-26|title=The Climate Case for Property Destruction|magazine=The New Republic|url=https://newrepublic.com/article/162247/andreas-malm-blow-up-pipeline-climate-direct-action|access-date=2021-09-13|issn=0028-6583|archive-date=September 13, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210913020752/https://newrepublic.com/article/162247/andreas-malm-blow-up-pipeline-climate-direct-action|url-status=live}}</ref>
After being asked about the ethics of the eco-terrorism depicted in his novel ''The Ministry for the Future'', author Kim Stanley Robinson told ''The World Today'' that he personally believed in nonviolence. He additionally suggested that ''How to Blow Up a Pipeline'' would be a better book for thinking about the issue, because it "makes a distinction that [''The Ministry for the Future''] is not good at, which is the distinction between sabotage and violence against property or destruction of property as against physical attacks on people".<ref>{{Cite web|last=Escobales|first=Roxanne|date=2021-10-01|title=Interview: Kim Stanley Robinson|url=https://www.chathamhouse.org/publications/the-world-today/2021-10/interview-kim-stanley-robinson|url-status=live|access-date=2021-10-22|website=The World Today|publisher=Chatham House|language=en|issn=0043-9134|archive-date=October 3, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211003140011/https://www.chathamhouse.org/publications/the-world-today/2021-10/interview-kim-stanley-robinson}}</ref>
=== Opposition === In response to Ezra Klein's mention of ''How to Blow Up a Pipeline'' in ''The New York Times'', a Fox News article by Lindsay Kornick claimed that Klein "appeared to condone eco-terrorism", writing that "Klein appeared to understand and even sympathize with the author".<ref>{{Cite web|last=Kornick|first=Lindsay|date=2021-07-18|title=NY Times columnist excuses eco-terrorism against oil companies|url=https://www.foxnews.com/media/ny-times-columnist-excuses-eco-terrorism-oil-companies|url-status=live|access-date=2021-09-13|website=Fox News|language=en-US|archive-date=September 13, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210913020845/https://www.foxnews.com/media/ny-times-columnist-excuses-eco-terrorism-oil-companies}}</ref> After Malm was a guest on ''The New Yorker Radio Hour'' in September 2021 and spoke about central ideas from the book, another article in Fox News by the same author described him as a "climate change extremist who advocates for 'intelligent sabotage{{'"}}.<ref>{{Cite magazine|last=Remnick|first=David|date=2021-09-24|title=Should the Climate Movement Embrace Sabotage?|url=https://www.newyorker.com/podcast/the-new-yorker-radio-hour/should-the-climate-movement-embrace-sabotage|url-status=live|access-date=2021-09-27|magazine=The New Yorker|language=en-US|archive-date=September 24, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210924201414/https://www.newyorker.com/podcast/the-new-yorker-radio-hour/should-the-climate-movement-embrace-sabotage}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Kornick|first=Lindsay|date=2021-09-26|title=New Yorker hosts climate change extremist who advocates for 'intelligent sabotage'|url=https://www.foxnews.com/media/new-yorker-platforms-climate-terrorist-advocates-sabotage|url-status=live|access-date=2021-09-27|website=Fox News|language=en-US|archive-date=September 26, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210926234429/https://www.foxnews.com/media/new-yorker-platforms-climate-terrorist-advocates-sabotage}}</ref> In ''The Spectator World'', Grayson Quay argued the fact that the interview took place was hypocritical because an anti-abortion activist who had written a book titled "How to Blow Up an Abortion Clinic" would not have gotten the same opportunity, describing Malm as a "scofflaw".<ref>{{Cite web|last=Quay|first=Grayson|date=September 29, 2021|title=The green movement flirts with violent sabotage|url=https://spectatorworld.com/topic/green-movement-flirts-violent-sabotage-climate/|url-status=live|access-date=2021-10-22|website=The Spectator World|language=en-US|archive-date=September 12, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220912011239/https://spectatorworld.com/topic/green-movement-flirts-violent-sabotage-climate/}}</ref>
In October 2021, the Fort Worth Intelligence Exchange (a fusion center in Texas) circulated a document about ''How to Blow Up a Pipeline'' nationwide. The document, which was later obtained by Property of the People, detailed concerns about the book and its content while stating that it was not connected to any known threat.<ref>{{Cite web|last1=Swan|first1=Betsy Woodruff|last2=Colman|first2=Zack|date=December 3, 2021|title=How to blow up a podcast|url=https://www.politico.com/amp/news/2021/12/03/new-yorker-podcast-andreas-malm-523705|url-status=live|access-date=2021-12-09|website=Politico|archive-date=May 24, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220524105729/https://www.politico.com/amp/news/2021/12/03/new-yorker-podcast-andreas-malm-523705}}</ref>
=== Other reactions === The environmental direct action group, Tyre Extinguishers, who began deflating tyres on SUVs in March 2022 as an act of climate protest, and are now active in 17 countries, say they were inspired to start their group by ''How to Blow Up a Pipeline.''<ref>{{Cite news |last1=Carrington |first1=Damian |date=2023-02-28 |title=Carbon emissions from global SUV fleet outweighs that of most countries |url=https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/feb/28/carbon-emissions-global-suv-sport-utility-vehicles-oil-climate |access-date=2023-04-23 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last1=Childs |first1=Simon |last2=selimbulut |date=2022-08-11 |title=Tyre Extinguishers: direct action group deflating climate change |url=https://www.rollingstone.co.uk/politics/features/tyre-extinguishers-suv-4x4-climate-action-campaign-21323/ |access-date=2023-04-23 |website=Rolling Stone UK |language=en-GB}}</ref> Malm called the group's actions a form of "extremely peaceful and gentle sabotage...anyone can deflate an SUV: it is virtually child's play. It requires no formal organization, no leadership, no funds, no implements other than bits of gravel or beans or green lentils. Given the infinitely replicable nature of the action—sabotage as meme—its potential for making SUV ownership less convenient and attractive could not be discounted."<ref>{{Cite web |title=Andreas Malm introduces Verso's new free ebook, Property Will Cost Us |url=https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/5322-andreas-malm-introduces-verso-s-new-free-ebook-property-will-cost-us-the-earth |access-date=2023-04-23 |website=Verso |language=en}}</ref>
== Film adaptation == {{main|How to Blow Up a Pipeline (film){{!}}''How to Blow Up a Pipeline'' (film)}}
The book was adapted into a thriller film, also titled ''How to Blow Up a Pipeline.'' The film was directed by Daniel Goldhaber, and written by Ariela Barer, Jordan Sjol, and Goldhaber. It revolves around a group of eight young people who decide to blow up an oil pipeline.<ref>{{cite web |last=Kuplowsky |first=Peter |title=How To Blow Up A Pipeline |url=https://tiff.net/events/how-to-blow-up-a-pipeline |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220814212520/https://www.tiff.net/events/how-to-blow-up-a-pipeline |archive-date=August 14, 2022 |access-date=2022-08-03 |website=TIFF}}</ref> It premiered in the Platform Prize program at the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival on September 10, 2022.<ref name="HReporterPlatform">{{cite web |last=Vlessing |first=Etan |date=3 August 2022 |title=Toronto Film Festival: Emily Bronte Movie 'Emily' to Open Platform Competition |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/tiff-2022-platform-competition-lineup-1235191760/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220826010609/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/tiff-2022-platform-competition-lineup-1235191760/ |archive-date=26 August 2022 |access-date=25 August 2022 |website=The Hollywood Reporter}}</ref><ref name="ScreenDailyPlatform">{{cite web |last=Kay |first=Jeremy |date=3 August 2022 |title=Frances O'Connor's 'Emily' to open TIFF Platform alongside films from Maïmouna Doucouré, Rima Das |url=https://www.screendaily.com/news/frances-oconnors-emily-to-open-tiff-platform-alongside-films-from-maimouna-doucoure-rima-das/5173158.article |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220805180144/https://www.screendaily.com/news/frances-oconnors-emily-to-open-tiff-platform-alongside-films-from-maimouna-doucoure-rima-das/5173158.article |archive-date=5 August 2022 |access-date=25 August 2022}}</ref> After its premiere, Neon acquired the North American distribution rights and released it theatrically in the United States on April 7, 2023.<ref name="Neon">{{cite magazine|last1=Ravindran |first1=Manori |date=September 13, 2022 |title=Neon Buys TIFF Environmental Thriller ''How to Blow Up a Pipeline'' |url=https://variety.com/2022/film/news/neon-buys-how-to-blow-up-a-pipeline-1235371500/ |url-status=live |publisher=Penske Media Corporation |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220913231029/https://variety.com/2022/film/news/neon-buys-how-to-blow-up-a-pipeline-1235371500/ |archive-date=September 13, 2022 |access-date=September 13, 2022 |magazine=Variety}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Lattanzio |first=Ryan |date=2023-03-02 |title='How to Blow Up a Pipeline' Trailer: Neon's Environmental Thriller Is Off the Rails |url=https://www.indiewire.com/2023/03/how-to-blow-up-a-pipeline-trailer-environmental-thriller-1234814755/ |access-date=2023-04-21 |website=IndieWire |language=en}}</ref>
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