{"id":67253,"date":"2024-04-11T15:26:58","date_gmt":"2024-04-11T20:26:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=67253"},"modified":"2024-04-11T15:26:58","modified_gmt":"2024-04-11T20:26:58","slug":"how-to-stop-worrying-and-love-the-bulldozer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=67253","title":{"rendered":"How to Stop Worrying and Love the Bulldozer"},"content":{"rendered":"
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How to Stop Worrying and Love the Bulldozer<\/a><\/h3>\n

The mainstream environmental movement is unintentionally re-creating Dr. Strangelove, a cautionary tale about the perils of unexamined beliefs and one of the greatest films in cinematic history<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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In Spring of last year, I was sitting on top of an excavator in Nevada as part of a protest against the destruction of a biodiverse and sacred Native American cultural site and wildlife habitat.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s me in the photograph on the right. I\u2019ve climbed on top of the machine as part of a prayer action led by Northern Paiute and Western Shoshone indigenous elders seeking to protect Thacker Pass, known in Paiute as Peehee Mu\u2019huh, from an open-pit lithium mine.<\/p>\n

Because lithium is a key ingredient in batteries for electric cars, this fight has represented a flashpoint in the environmental movement.<\/p>\n

At the same time as we were sitting in front and on top of the machinery,\u00a0Mother Jones Magazine<\/em>\u00a0was publishing the polar opposite message on its cover. I know I have a few sight-impaired readers, so allow me to explain. The cover of the May\/June 2023 issue of\u00a0Mother Jones<\/em>\u00a0features a title story called “Yes in Our Backyards: It’s time for progressives to fall in love with the green building boom,” written by Bill McKibben.<\/p>\n

The cover of the magazine shows a woman standing in the bucket of an excavator that closely resembles the one I climbed on top of at Thacker Pass. But this woman is not protesting. Instead, she is embracing the machine lovingly, a rapturous expression on her face.<\/p>\n

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Welcome to\u00a0<\/em>Biocentric, a newsletter focused on sustainability, greenwashing, and building a resistance movement to defend the planet. I\u2019m Max Wilbert, co-founder of\u00a0<\/em>Protect Thacker Pass\u00a0and co-author of \u2018<\/em>Bright Green Lies: How the Environmental Movement Lost Its Way and What We Can Do About It…<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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