Fight against climate change

In ›H A Z E  City‹, one of the questions raised is to what extent violence can be legitimized to bring about change. How can climate change be stopped? What are the right strategies? While the climate movement has always been committed to non-violence, other voices are becoming louder:

Andreas Malm for example advocates for ›intelligent sabotage‹ of fossil-fuel infrastructure to prevent more carbon from being emitted in the atmosphere. ›I am in favor of destroying machines, property—not harming people. That’s a very important distinction,‹ he explains in this podcast of The New Yorker. His book is provocatively titled ›How To Blow Up A Pipeline,‹ though it is not exactly an instruction manual.

In a scene from ›H A Z E City‹, highlighted newspaper articles can be found next to painted protest signs – one of these articles is a recent interview with Slavoj Žižek about climate change published in a German newspaper. The Slovenian philosopher speaks positively about Malm; the article makes us of a  provocative quote for its title: ›The time has come for limited violence‹ – a statement that can also be heard in Schönefeld’s film. – More in the BZ interview