by Protect Thacker Pass | Aug 5, 2021 | Press, Reflection
The history of the industrial era is one of colonization and extraction. This continues today, as we who work to protect the land know well. The film In the name of lithium is a documentary about the struggle of Argentine indigenous communities to prevent their salt...
by Max Wilbert | Jul 27, 2021 | Reflection
The great poet and playwright James Baldwin wrote in 1953 that “People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction.” Perhaps never has this been truer than in this era of converging ecological crises: global warming, biodiversity collapse,...
by Protect Thacker Pass | Jul 23, 2021 | Reflection
The plan to “electrify everything” that is rapidly taking over all economic and policy planning around the world means that mining for metals and minerals will increase dramatically to supply demand for technologies like EVs and so much more. Take a look...
by Protect Thacker Pass | Jul 9, 2021 | Reflection
By Justin McAffee for the Sierra Nevada Ally, July 9, 2021 What if I told you that Glenn Miller’s opinion piece about the Thacker Pass lithium project was a form of climate change denialism? He argues that lithium is necessary to convert our automobile transportation...
by Protect Thacker Pass | Jul 7, 2021 | Reflection
In his recent opinion piece, “Thacker Pass Lithium Mine is Important for Limiting Global Warming,” Glenn Miller makes the same fundamental error so many others do these days: believing that climate change is the main crisis, rather than a symptom of the real crisis we...
by Max Wilbert | Jul 7, 2021 | Reflection
Two hundred years ago, the place where I sit writing these words was the site of a massacre. According to Harley Jackson, an elder from the Fort McDermitt Paiute-Shoshone Tribe, the story goes like this. A group of Northern Paiute / Western Shoshone / Bannock people,...
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