Resistance to Ecological Collapse: Peering Through The Window

An update on my organizing projects and work-in-progress for paid subscribers

The lonely view from the second story of an abandoned ranch somewhere in the Great Basin. Photo by the author.

Welcome to Biocentric, a newsletter about sustainability, overshoot, greenwashing, and resistance. It’s written by me, Max Wilbert, the co-author of Bright Green Lies: How the Environmental Movement Lost Its Way and What We Can Do About It and co-founder of Protect Thacker Pass. If you want to follow, you can subscribe for free! Paid subscribers receive occasional behind-the-scenes reports and unreleased drafts - like this post - and support my activism.

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1. The Next Lithium Mine

In late September, I visited the site of the next planned lithium mine just north of Thacker Pass, on the Oregon side of the border. I recorded this short video there, explaning the issue.

2. Links and Videos

• Last weekend, I hosted a fundraising event called “Ecology of Spirit: Biocentrism, Animism, and the Environmental Crisis - the Spirituality of the Front Lines.” It featured some excellent speakers, including Anne Keala Kelly, Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Sakej Ward, Derrick Jensen, and more. If you missed that event, you can check out the recording here.

• Chris Ketchum wrote an interesting article profiling an eco-saboteur in Harpers.

• A few weeks ago was the Eugene Environmental Film Festival, which included a screening of Brandi Morin and The Real News’ film, Mining the Sacred. The film focused on indigenous perspectives on the Thacker Pass lithium mine resistance, and features quite a few friends. Brandi was in town for the festival, along with Dean Barlese, and I was honored to spend a few minutes discussing my experience at Thacker Pass following the screening.

Mining the Sacred screening at the Eugene Environmental Film Festival.

Next, an update on Protect Thacker Pass.