Max you are most definitely an Earth Warrior! Much respect for using your GHT (Global Hospice Time) for this extensive amount of work. Perhaps it will all collapse before these pirates get to rape and pillage any more...heavy sigh...
Now that I see these other comments, that is very helpful - I've been in awe of your dedication, knowledge and sense of wonder you share - even through your eyes, beside your writing. I thank you for that. No wonder you looked tired on the mountain the other day.....
Max, my legal and scholarly vocabulary is nowhere near what it should be to address this issue. Are you expecting comments on what you wrote (which I did read and semi-understand) or reponses to the entities to which you wrote? I'm deep into my Welcome House projects at this time (dealing with 24 so-called homeless shelters, which involves managing, stocking, etc them and this would be a singular project for me - 300 people might know how they feel and the truth but taking the time you obviously have is not in our plans right now. And we are "Busking for Buyana" (Buyna is small villagae in Uganda where almost all the parents succumbed to AIDS is the '80s. Financing food, shelte, education, water, medical, etc...we are obviously not handling all of it but we're supporting one young lady's tuition to let her remain in school by spending a few hours a week busking toward next term's tuition for 30+ young 'uns (we've just begun with one so far and will see how it goes), my mind doesn't work nearly as facilely (is that the word?) as yours. How much time do you expect or want on this subject, and frankly, I feel inadequate writing about happenings in the northwest (we're in Minnesota). Given time I could come up with a legible comment or so, as obviously this is a universal subject. Guidance please? Also, we are working to help orphans in Uganda by raising food and tuiion (If anyone would care to send tuition or food to these orphans in Uganda - I have dealt with them as a single payer when one of the guests suggested we all get involved) you may check it out on Facebook at @HerbertMugerawa.com or @SteveLucky98@yahoo.comSo some guidance from you as to how detailed you'd like our comments to you to be would be helpful. And thank YOU for you devotion to Unci Mata and therefore the human critters who reside on it. Addy (not Betsy, still, I still haven't gotten our FB pages up to date.
I agree with you about the destructiveness of any mining, of course. I would prefer that we were on a path of degrowth, a topic I have written about, but realistically that isn't going to happen. It appears iron-air batteries are far more appropriate for grid storage, which would hopefully reduce demand for lithium. Wind and solar have potential to move us to a cleaner economy, although Net Zero I believe is a fantasy. Reducing GHGs as rapidly as possible is more critical with every passing day and the cheating of carbon credits and assumptions about highly suspect carbon capture, are disturbing avoidance of reality. I am aware of Jevon's Paradox. Truly, the root of our problems are behavioral. I admire the courage and tenacity of your battle at Thacker Pass.
Sound, moral arguments combined with actual transgressions in the process. Great job, Max. If you were dealing with people who wake up with any kind of moral code, your fight would be over. I just published this and wonder if it might diminish the lithium rush. Thacker Pass got a mention as well. https://geoffreydeihl.substack.com/p/heavy-metal-rockin-old-26-fe
Thanks Geoffrey. I don't advocate for alternative battery technologies because I believe that trying to save our culture, industrial civilization, is the wrong framing. We need to focus on saving the planet, not providing energy. Iron ore mining is incredibly destructive of the natural world, and all the evidence thus far shows that a new, efficient battery technology would only be used to support more economic growth; in other words, the evidence doesn't support decoupling. We also wrote extensively about Jevon's Paradox in "Bright Green Lies," which is very relevant to this topic.
Wow! This reflects a ton of work!! 🙏
Max you are most definitely an Earth Warrior! Much respect for using your GHT (Global Hospice Time) for this extensive amount of work. Perhaps it will all collapse before these pirates get to rape and pillage any more...heavy sigh...
Now that I see these other comments, that is very helpful - I've been in awe of your dedication, knowledge and sense of wonder you share - even through your eyes, beside your writing. I thank you for that. No wonder you looked tired on the mountain the other day.....
Max, my legal and scholarly vocabulary is nowhere near what it should be to address this issue. Are you expecting comments on what you wrote (which I did read and semi-understand) or reponses to the entities to which you wrote? I'm deep into my Welcome House projects at this time (dealing with 24 so-called homeless shelters, which involves managing, stocking, etc them and this would be a singular project for me - 300 people might know how they feel and the truth but taking the time you obviously have is not in our plans right now. And we are "Busking for Buyana" (Buyna is small villagae in Uganda where almost all the parents succumbed to AIDS is the '80s. Financing food, shelte, education, water, medical, etc...we are obviously not handling all of it but we're supporting one young lady's tuition to let her remain in school by spending a few hours a week busking toward next term's tuition for 30+ young 'uns (we've just begun with one so far and will see how it goes), my mind doesn't work nearly as facilely (is that the word?) as yours. How much time do you expect or want on this subject, and frankly, I feel inadequate writing about happenings in the northwest (we're in Minnesota). Given time I could come up with a legible comment or so, as obviously this is a universal subject. Guidance please? Also, we are working to help orphans in Uganda by raising food and tuiion (If anyone would care to send tuition or food to these orphans in Uganda - I have dealt with them as a single payer when one of the guests suggested we all get involved) you may check it out on Facebook at @HerbertMugerawa.com or @SteveLucky98@yahoo.comSo some guidance from you as to how detailed you'd like our comments to you to be would be helpful. And thank YOU for you devotion to Unci Mata and therefore the human critters who reside on it. Addy (not Betsy, still, I still haven't gotten our FB pages up to date.
that first email would be HerbertMugera@aol.com and both are on paypal. Forgive my networking. :-)
I agree with you about the destructiveness of any mining, of course. I would prefer that we were on a path of degrowth, a topic I have written about, but realistically that isn't going to happen. It appears iron-air batteries are far more appropriate for grid storage, which would hopefully reduce demand for lithium. Wind and solar have potential to move us to a cleaner economy, although Net Zero I believe is a fantasy. Reducing GHGs as rapidly as possible is more critical with every passing day and the cheating of carbon credits and assumptions about highly suspect carbon capture, are disturbing avoidance of reality. I am aware of Jevon's Paradox. Truly, the root of our problems are behavioral. I admire the courage and tenacity of your battle at Thacker Pass.
https://geoffreydeihl.substack.com/p/degrowth-the-vision-we-must-demand
Sound, moral arguments combined with actual transgressions in the process. Great job, Max. If you were dealing with people who wake up with any kind of moral code, your fight would be over. I just published this and wonder if it might diminish the lithium rush. Thacker Pass got a mention as well. https://geoffreydeihl.substack.com/p/heavy-metal-rockin-old-26-fe
Thanks Geoffrey. I don't advocate for alternative battery technologies because I believe that trying to save our culture, industrial civilization, is the wrong framing. We need to focus on saving the planet, not providing energy. Iron ore mining is incredibly destructive of the natural world, and all the evidence thus far shows that a new, efficient battery technology would only be used to support more economic growth; in other words, the evidence doesn't support decoupling. We also wrote extensively about Jevon's Paradox in "Bright Green Lies," which is very relevant to this topic.
With that said, harm reduction can be a valuable stopgap measure, so we'll see what the future holds.
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