Activists Will Falk and Max Wilbert are currently occupying the majestic Thacker Pass, located in the Great Basin of Nevada, using direct action to protect it from a proposed 5,000-acre open-pit lithium mine.
This project just like other large-scale industrial mines is robbing our children of their natural heritage in the name of quick profits.
Let me ask you a question, is it right to destroy this magnificent piece of creation so that we can drive eclectic cars around, including electric bicycles? To be clear, electric cars are not needed.
I’ll be honest, electric cars and bikes are fun, last year I road one bike for the first time and it was a blast.
But, and I mean but – I’m willing to do without one, and forego the enjoyment and desire of having an electric bicycle especially if it means saving a pristine, irreplaceable ecosystem like Thacker Pass.
Because we humans have survived for 99.9% of our existence without the use of cars for transportation and logistics.
We don’t need electric cars!
Just like Max Wilbert recently said – “It may not be as impressive as a towering ancient redwood old-growth forest, but there’s the same level of complexity, the same level of life and unique species that call this ecosystem home”.
It’s an old-growth desert ecosystem that takes thousands of years to develop.
If Thacker Pass gets mined, then it will be gone forever, and be destroyed just like thousands of other sacred lands around the world.
The question is, are we willing to continue destroying life on earth for things that are not essential for life on earth?
Get involved and learn more about the urgently important effort to Protect Thacker Pass here.