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 Elisabeth Robson | 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 Elisabeth Robson | 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 Elisabeth Robson | 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,...
by Elisabeth Robson | Jul 7, 2021 | Reflection
At Thacker Pass, by Rob Lewis Tilting sea of sagebrush, ancient fragrance rising. Circular distances weaving baskets of stone, time, silence. The windmind where you wandered before your name before the dials and settings of Progress closed and ordered your gates. *...
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