by Max Wilbert | Apr 15, 2021 | Reflection
As a culture, we are addicted to industrial civilization. Like heroin, meth, alcohol, or crack, addiction to industrial civilization is dangerous. According to a 2007 Cornell University study, 40% of all human deaths are caused by water, air, and soil pollution. In...
by Max Wilbert | Apr 15, 2021 | Reflection, Resistance Updates
Today marks 3 MONTHS / 90 DAYS since our protest camp was established. The situation remains URGENT. The destruction of Thacker Pass may be imminent in coming weeks and months. Now is the time to make plans to visit camp, put pressure on the government and politicians...
by Will Falk | Apr 14, 2021 | Reflection
Thacker Pass remembers when the hairy, pale-skinned men came to round up her people and drag them away to the forts. The hoofbeats of cavalry warhorses thundered through the basin. Pistols popped and carbines cracked. Children and elders hid in the red shadows of the...
by Protect Thacker Pass | Apr 12, 2021 | Reflection
Spring has sprung at Thacker Pass! All photos by Sarah...
by Max Wilbert | Apr 8, 2021 | Reflection
It’s often said that solar panels, wind turbines, and the lithium-ion batteries that store their energy and power electric vehicles will save the planet. What most people don’t know is that producing lithium has direct links to the Alberta Tar Sands (also known as the...
by Rebecca Wildbear | Apr 8, 2021 | Reflection
Photograph of Thacker Pond by Max Wilbert Lithium: Mining Mountains of Water by Rebecca Wildbear Nearly a third of the world lacks safe drinking water, though I have rarely been without. In a red rock canyon in Utah, backpacking on a week-long wilderness training in...
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