Andreas Malm is a scholar of human ecology, and the author of
How to Blow Up a Pipeline,
Corona, Climate, Chronic Emergency, The Progress of this Storm, and
Fossil Capital, which won the Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Memorial Prize.
Jimmy Whipps is a lifetime resident of Portland, Oregon. He enjoyed a twenty-year career in education, primarily as a middle school social sciences teacher. He has been involved in a variety of actions, marches, and protests.
Llewyn Whipps is a habitat restoration practitioner working primarily on Kalapuyan land. They attended their first protest as an elementary schooler, with their father Jimmy. They have been a participant in the climate movement since their early twenties, joining fights for fossil fuel divestment, against industrial logging, and to stop oil trains and drill rigs.