Stop Fossil Fuels
 Climate Change
Climate change is wreaking devastation now, and will get much worse. Principles of Climate Civil Resistance Action vs Catastrophic Climate Change Carbon Emissions & Concentration
 Killing Humans
Fossil fuel pollution and climate change kill millions of humans each year.
 Ecological Collapse
We are in the midst of global ecological collapse. Biological Annihilation Forest Loss
 Those We Love
We must stop fossil fuels to defend those you love.
 Hope Is Not Enough
We've waited decades. We can no longer rely on hope of a mass awakening. Winnie-the-Pooh's Insights
 Green Tech Not Enough
Green tech isn't slowing fossil fuel combustion, and isn't a solution.
 Efficiency Not Enough
Paradoxically, energy efficiency increases fossil fuel use.
 Politicians Not Enough
Governments have yet to take meaningful action. Carbon Emissions & Concentration
 Peak Oil Not Enough
Peak oil won't reduce carbon emissions fast enough. Shale & Tar Sands: Like Burning Rainforest
 Better Life Ahead
Life will be better in a post carbon world. Reform, Devolution & Deep Adaptation Civilization Reduces Quality of Life Collapse Increases Quality of Life
 Gentler Transition
The sooner we put on the brakes, the gentler the transition. Reform, Devolution & Deep Adaptation Experiment in Madness
 Stop the Flows
It's time for an intervention: we must physically shut off the flows ourselves.
 Attrition
A strategy of attrition is inappropriate given our numbers and resources.
 Principles of Strategy
Military analysts have derived principles of strategy from which we can learn. Pipeline Activism & Principles of Strategy The Art of Guerrilla Warfare Principles of War and Operations
 Cascading Failure
We must use a cascading failure strategy to disrupt a fragile technological system. Shale Oil: Dying Fire Ready For Snuffing WE Pipeline explosion: a case study
 Civil Disobedience
Civil disobedience has some limited applications. Standing Rock and #NoDAPL Principles of Climate Civil Resistance Valve Turners Unist'ot'en Camp
 Ecosabotage
Ecosabotage allows activists to take the offensive. Ruby & Jessica: DAPL Ecosaboteurs DAPL Ecosaboteurs Interview Book Review: The Overstory DAPL Ecosabotage Press Release More Related Pages
 Militant Resistance
Militant resistance has shuttered 10-40% of Nigeria's oil production. Niger Delta Militants: Lives Saved
 Critical Infrastructure & Systems
We must use our limited resources to target critical infrastructure and systems. Frac Sand Supply Chain
 Electric Grid
The electric grid is uniquely vulnerable to cascading failure. CARVER Matrix
 Target Selection
Careful target selection of specific infrastructure is necessary. CARVER Matrix
 Hit and Run
We must use hit and run tactics to trigger cascading failure.
 The Work
We need people stopping fossil fuels.
 Front Line Activists
Front line activists directly stop fossil fuels.
 Loyalty & Material Support
We can all provide loyalty and material support to those doing the necessary work. Donate
 Spread the Strategy
We need a grassroots spreading knowledge of effective strategy and tactics. Printed Material Video & Audio Appearances
 Aboveground & Underground
There must be a strict firewall between those working aboveground and those underground.
 Your First Choice
Your first choice is your most important: above or underground? Choosing Aboveground or Underground
 Digital Security
Become familiar with digital security tools.
 Security Culture
Security culture is more important than any technical tools. Ruby & Jessica: DAPL Ecosaboteurs 73 Rules of Spycraft by Allen Dulles
 Other Groups
Serve on the front lines.
 Join Us
Join Stop Fossil Fuels in our work. Donate
 Be Effective
Maximize personal & organizational effectiveness.
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 Climate Change
Climate change is wreaking devastation now, and will get much worse. Principles of Climate Civil Resistance Action vs Catastrophic Climate Change Carbon Emissions & Concentration
 Killing Humans
Fossil fuel pollution and climate change kill millions of humans each year.
 Ecological Collapse
We are in the midst of global ecological collapse. Biological Annihilation Forest Loss
 Those We Love
We must stop fossil fuels to defend those you love.
 Hope Is Not Enough
We've waited decades. We can no longer rely on hope of a mass awakening. Winnie-the-Pooh's Insights
 Green Tech Not Enough
Green tech isn't slowing fossil fuel combustion, and isn't a solution.
 Efficiency Not Enough
Paradoxically, energy efficiency increases fossil fuel use.
 Politicians Not Enough
Governments have yet to take meaningful action. Carbon Emissions & Concentration
 Peak Oil Not Enough
Peak oil won't reduce carbon emissions fast enough. Shale & Tar Sands: Like Burning Rainforest
 Better Life Ahead
Life will be better in a post carbon world. Reform, Devolution & Deep Adaptation Civilization Reduces Quality of Life Collapse Increases Quality of Life
 Gentler Transition
The sooner we put on the brakes, the gentler the transition. Reform, Devolution & Deep Adaptation Experiment in Madness
 Stop the Flows
It's time for an intervention: we must physically shut off the flows ourselves.
 Attrition
A strategy of attrition is inappropriate given our numbers and resources.
 Principles of Strategy
Military analysts have derived principles of strategy from which we can learn. Pipeline Activism & Principles of Strategy The Art of Guerrilla Warfare Principles of War and Operations
 Cascading Failure
We must use a cascading failure strategy to disrupt a fragile technological system. Shale Oil: Dying Fire Ready For Snuffing WE Pipeline explosion: a case study
 Civil Disobedience
Civil disobedience has some limited applications. Standing Rock and #NoDAPL Principles of Climate Civil Resistance Valve Turners Unist'ot'en Camp
 Ecosabotage
Ecosabotage allows activists to take the offensive. Ruby & Jessica: DAPL Ecosaboteurs DAPL Ecosaboteurs Interview Book Review: The Overstory DAPL Ecosabotage Press Release More Related Pages
 Militant Resistance
Militant resistance has shuttered 10-40% of Nigeria's oil production. Niger Delta Militants: Lives Saved
 Critical Infrastructure & Systems
We must use our limited resources to target critical infrastructure and systems. Frac Sand Supply Chain
 Electric Grid
The electric grid is uniquely vulnerable to cascading failure. CARVER Matrix
 Target Selection
Careful target selection of specific infrastructure is necessary. CARVER Matrix
 Hit and Run
We must use hit and run tactics to trigger cascading failure.
 The Work
We need people stopping fossil fuels.
 Front Line Activists
Front line activists directly stop fossil fuels.
 Loyalty & Material Support
We can all provide loyalty and material support to those doing the necessary work. Donate
 Spread the Strategy
We need a grassroots spreading knowledge of effective strategy and tactics. Printed Material Video & Audio Appearances
 Aboveground & Underground
There must be a strict firewall between those working aboveground and those underground.
 Your First Choice
Your first choice is your most important: above or underground? Choosing Aboveground or Underground
 Digital Security
Become familiar with digital security tools.
 Security Culture
Security culture is more important than any technical tools. Ruby & Jessica: DAPL Ecosaboteurs 73 Rules of Spycraft by Allen Dulles
 Other Groups
Serve on the front lines.
 Join Us
Join Stop Fossil Fuels in our work. Donate
 Be Effective
Maximize personal & organizational effectiveness.
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Why stop fossil fuels?

Climate change

Historical projected world greenhouse gases

Without direct action, catastrophic climate change is inevitable

Without direct action to stop fossil fuels, catastrophic climate change involving a temperature rise of at least 4°C by 2100 is now inevitable, despite the Paris Agreement and talk of 2°C....
Climate Change

Ecological collapse

Biological annihilation

Biological Annihilation

Industrial humans are depopulating the globe of wildlife, driving populations and entire species extinct at the fastest rate in millions of years....
Ecological Collapse
Feller buncher multiple trees

Forest Loss

We can't know precisely how much forest has been degraded or destroyed since humans began using fossil fuels, but there's no doubt that the areas are huge....
Ecological Collapse

Hope is not enough

Little black rain cloud

Winnie-the-Pooh On Stopping Fossil Fuels

In the very first chapter of his very first book, Winnie-the-Pooh and his human friend Christopher Robin play out the rise and fall of industrialism. We can learn from their tale....
Hope Is Not Enough

Politicians not enough

Carbon emissions atmospheric concentration

Carbon Emissions & Atmospheric Concentration

Decades of climate research, conferences, and agreements haven't reversed carbon emissions or atmospheric concentration...
Politicians Not Enough Climate Change

Peak oil not enough

Rainforest fire

Shale Oil & Tar Sands: Like Trying to Burn Rainforest

Extracting shale oil & tar sands is a desperate reaction to peak oil. Exploiting them makes as little sense as trying to burn lush rainforest to harvest soggy charcoal....
Peak Oil Not Enough

Better life ahead

Deep adaptation restoration

From Reform to Devolution: Jem Bendell’s Deep Adaptation

Environmentalists advocate reduce, reuse, and recycle—good practices, but incommensurate with the scope of our emergency. We propose superseding these R's with resilience, relinquishment, and restoration....
Better Life Ahead Gentler Transition
Civilization

Civilization Reduces Quality of Life

Civilization is assumed to increase longevity, knowledge & standard of living over that of hunter-gatherers. Yet it doesn't. Read more....
Better Life Ahead
Local democracy india

Collapse Increases Quality of Life

We stand on the brink of collapse. That idea terrifies people, but shouldn’t: collapse decreases complexity & increases quality of life....
Better Life Ahead

Gentler transition

Experiment in madness

Experiment in Madness

Imagine an airplane in an experiment set up by mad scientists. The plane has a limited amount of fuel, so must come down sooner or later. The mad scientists give the plane's 1000 inhabitants money every minute the plane is in flight, paying more money the faster and the higher it goes....
Gentler Transition

How to stop fossil fuels

Principles of strategy

Strategic tactical planning map

Pipeline Activism and Principles of Strategy

What makes some actions and campaigns more effective than others? How can strategic and tactical military principles help pipeline activists be more successful?...
Principles of Strategy
Art of guerrilla warfare

The Art of Guerrilla Warfare: excerpts for activists

What can modern activists learn from World War II era sabotage and guerrilla warfare? Colin Gubbins' classic pamphlet still has relevance today....
Principles of Strategy
Us fm30 operations2017

Principles of War and Operations

The nine principles of war represent the most important nonphysical factors that affect the conduct of operations at the strategic, operational, and tactical levels....
Principles of Strategy

Cascading failure

Shale oil fracking dying fire

Shale Oil: a Dying Fire Ready For Snuffing

Extinguishing the already sputtering flame of shale oil could be surprisingly easy. With the industry so financially precarious, it may be vulnerable to even a sprinkle of attrition....
Cascading Failure
Prince george enbridge westcoast explosion

Enbridge’s Westcoast Energy Pipeline explosion

Transportation of natural gas and oil depends heavily on pipelines. In some areas, just a few pipelines bottleneck an entire region's distribution....
Cascading Failure

Civil disobedience

Standing rock defend sacred

Standing Rock and #NoDAPL

#NoDAPL, centered on Standing Rock, sprawled across 15 months, 900 miles of pipeline construction, and eventually the world. How successful was it? What lessons can we learn?...
Civil Disobedience
Kxl protest student

Principles of Climate Civil Resistance

In this age of climate crisis, we have a moral right, backed by national and international law, to resist pipelines and other fossil fuel infrastructure....
Civil Disobedience Climate Change
Valve turners

Valve Turners

The Valve Turners halted hundreds of thousands of barrels of oil with a simple, easily replicable tactic. Read about their strategy and effectiveness....
Civil Disobedience
Unistoten camp checkpoint

Unist’ot’en Camp

Direct actionists fighting for social and environmental justice favor tactics of occupations and blockades. Usually these are primarily symbolic; their employment within a strategy of attrition minimizes their material impact. The Unist'ot'en Camp is different....
Civil Disobedience

Ecosabotage

Ruby montoya jessica reznicek nonviolence

Ruby Montoya & Jessica Reznicek: DAPL Ecosaboteurs

"We went to these places with knowledge self-garnered within a matter of weeks and were effectively halting construction for weeks on end just via one fire or one valve piercing." — Jessica Reznicek...
Ecosabotage Security Culture
Ruby montoya jessica reznicek

Interview With DAPL Ecosaboteurs Ruby Montoya & Jessica Reznicek

"You’re battling with fear, because we’re all living in this oppressive system. That’s something we have to overcome. We have to liberate ourselves through our own actions."...
Ecosabotage
Overstory richard powers

Book Review: The Overstory by Richard Powers

"The best arguments in the world won't change a person's mind. The only thing that can do that is a good story." So states one of the nine protagonists of a story good enough to change minds, and perhaps the world as a result....
Ecosabotage
Ruby montoya jessica reznicek press release

Ruby Montoya & Jessica Reznicek: DAPL Ecosabotage Press Release

For 5 months, Ruby Montoya & Jessica Reznicek sabotaged the Dakota Access Pipeline, hoping to halt construction for good. Read why, in their own words....
Ecosabotage
Friend of the earth

Book Review: A Friend of the Earth by T.C. Boyle

This book could be a fun read for tree huggers and tree spikers alike. In a narrative split between the climate battered world of 2025 and life as a circa 1990 ecosaboteur, environmental doom meets righteously taking on the system. But it falls short of its potential....
Ecosabotage

Militant resistance

Nigeria crude oil extraction

Niger Delta Militants: Lives Saved

Militant resistance cut Nigerian crude extraction by a sustained 200-800,000 bpd since 2006, averting up to 1900 deaths per month...
Militant Resistance

Critical infrastructure & systems

Frac sand mine wisconsin

Frac Sand Supply Chain

Special sand is needed for fracked wells. Most of the supply chain is decentralized and resilient, but it has some bottlenecks and critical nodes....
Critical Infrastructure & Systems

Target selection

Carver

Example CARVER Matrix

In this US Army Field Manual example, transformers are the most effective target for disrupting an electricity supply. They score high on criticality; ease of accessing, recognizing, and damaging them; and difficulty for the system to recover from damage....
Target Selection Electric Grid

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Loyalty & material support

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Spread the strategy

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Printed Material

Please help disseminate our analysis by downloading, printing, and distributing material....
Spread the Strategy
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Video & Audio Appearances

Watch and listen to members of Stop Fossil Fuels share analysis and strategy....
Spread the Strategy

Your first choice

Considerations In Choosing Between Aboveground and Underground

Do you have the ability to plan carefully, including for contingencies? Can you remain calm and effective in stressful situations?...
Your First Choice

Security culture

Shadowy spy

73 Rules of Spycraft by Allen Dulles

Renowned CIA Director Allen Dulles distills a lifetime of experience in subterfuge & asymmetric warfare into rules still relevant to underground activists today....
Security Culture