by Protect Thacker Pass | Feb 13, 2022 | Reflection
The implications of replacing cars (and other vehicles) with electric vehicles (EVs) are many. As we’ve previously discussed, this includes perpetuating car culture and the devastating damage to the natural world caused by roads, and the massive increase in...
by Protect Thacker Pass | Feb 9, 2022 | Project updates
Several false statements have been circulating about Protect Thacker Pass co-founders Max Wilbert and Will Falk in the media as part of a calculated effort to sabotage our opposition to the Thacker Pass lithium mine—an effort that is being encouraged by Lithium...
by Will Falk | Feb 7, 2022 | Reflection
When people say “we” need cars, “we” need mining, “we” need industries like the automobile manufacturing industry, I want to know who “we” are. The natural world does not need cars. The rivers, lakes, oceans, and...
by Max Wilbert | Jan 9, 2022 | Reflection
The Thacker Pass Lithium Mine Would Supply Nuclear Weapons and Reactors And The Global Nuclear Threat Level is Rising. By Max Wilbert Published January 8, 2022 at the Sierra Nevada Ally The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything except our thinking. Thus,...
by Protect Thacker Pass | Dec 29, 2021 | Reflection
Most of us don’t want to think about climate change or ecological collapse or any of the other crises facing humans and this world in the 21st century. We just want to live our lives. The problem is that the way we’re living our lives is causing pollution, extinction,...
by Will Falk | Dec 28, 2021 | Art
First, There’s the World by Will Falk First, there’s wind kissing your breast, chills chapping your lips, and frost on your sleeping bag before dawn. First, there’s salmon swimming upstream, heron stalking blue-gill, and grizzly bear brothers wrestling. First, there’s...
by Will Falk | Dec 23, 2021 | Art, Reflection
Desert Prognosis by Will Falk Wrapped in the dark blanket of night, huddled and feverish with cosmic infections, either I’m shaking or the sky is. I look to the heavens with so many wishes. But, there are only so many shooting stars. The last star is erratic, bouncing...
by Will Falk | Dec 19, 2021 | Art
This American Solstice by Will Falk Light, made stronger by the dark, flows from the half moon, and makes the long journey down to dance with her bright kin, the flames leaping from a thousand bonfires. Druid whispers are almost audible as they scatter from groves of...
by Max Wilbert | Dec 18, 2021 | Art
Dawn breaks over the small creek The night’s hard ice sparkles on every stone Light floods the land Fifty pronghorn crest the low rise to the east Making their seasonal migration The sun sweeps a wide, low arc across the firmament The cold stillness so crisp and...
by Will Falk | Dec 15, 2021 | Art
As Tradition Goes Up in Smoke by Will Falk When the frost of ancestral protection vanishes with rising temperatures and minds grow soft with amnesia, they come in heavy trucks to mine memories and steal stories. Glaciers remain, for now, wavering, with teardrops...
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