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DoomsdaysCW<p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ThackerPass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ThackerPass</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Protectors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Protectors</span></a> File First-Ever '<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BiodiversityNecessityDefense" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BiodiversityNecessityDefense</span></a>' in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Nevada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Nevada</span></a> Court</p><p>While pursuing a '<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateNecessityDefense" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateNecessityDefense</span></a>,' and making allegations that <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/mining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mining</span></a> company has violated their rights, their attorney said, 'They’re not criminals; they’re heroes.'</p><p>Bhie-Cie Zahn-Nahtzu: “<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LithiumNevada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LithiumNevada</span></a> is a <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/greedy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>greedy</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/corporation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>corporation</span></a> on the wrong side of history when it comes to <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnvironmentalRacism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EnvironmentalRacism</span></a> and desecration of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SacredSites" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SacredSites</span></a>. It’s ironic to me that I’m the trespasser because I want to see my ancestral land preserved.”</p><p>By <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ProtectThackerPass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ProtectThackerPass</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CensoredNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CensoredNews</span></a>, March 26, 2024</p><p>"In a first for the American legal system, the lawyers for six people sued by Lithium Nevada Corporation for protesting the Thacker Pass mine are arguing a ‘biodiversity necessity defense.’</p><p>"The necessity defense is a legal argument used to justify breaking the law when a greater harm is being prevented; for example, breaking a car window to save an infant locked inside on a stifling hot day, or breaking down a door to help someone screaming inside a locked home. In these cases, trespassing is justified to save a life.<br>.<br>"This week’s filing states: 'Defendants possessed an actual belief that their acts of protest were necessary to prevent the present, continuing harms and evils of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ecocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ecocide</span></a> and irreversible <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateChange</span></a>.' </p><p>"'We’re in the midst of the 6th <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MassExtinction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MassExtinction</span></a> of life on Earth, and it’s being caused by human activities like mining,' said attorney Terry Lodge, who is representing the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/protesters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>protesters</span></a>. 'Our lives are made possible by <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/biodiversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>biodiversity</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ecosystems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ecosystems</span></a>. Protecting our children from pollution and biodiversity collapse isn’t criminal, it’s heroic.'</p><p>"Currently Earth is experiencing one of the most rapid and widespread extinction events in the planet’s 4-billion-year history. </p><p>"Biologists report that habitat destruction, like the bulldozing of nearly 6,000 acres of biodiverse <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/sagebrush" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sagebrush</span></a> steppe for the Thacker Pass mine, is the main cause of this '<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/6thMassExtinction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>6thMassExtinction</span></a>.'"</p><p>Read more:<br><a href="https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/03/thacker-pass-protectors-file-first-ever.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/03</span><span class="invisible">/thacker-pass-protectors-file-first-ever.html</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ThackerPassProtectors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ThackerPassProtectors</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SLAPPs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SLAPPs</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SaveThackerPass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SaveThackerPass</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PeeheeMuhuh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PeeheeMuhuh</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Pauite" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Pauite</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Shoshone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Shoshone</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NoMining</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LithiumMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LithiumMining</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EarthDefenders" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EarthDefenders</span></a></p>
GrrlScientist ⧖ Ⓥ :verified:<p>African Painted Dogs Could Be Cooked Into Extinction By Climate Change | via UCL published by Global Change Biology</p><p>Global warming isn’t only affecting animals like polar bears and emperor penguins. African wild dog populations may also collapse due to climate change</p><p>by <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mstdn.science/@GrrlScientist" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>GrrlScientist</span></a></span> via @ForbesScience / @Forbes</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/ClimateCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateCrisis</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/extinction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>extinction</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/wildlife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>wildlife</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/6thMassExtinction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>6thMassExtinction</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist/2023/08/29/african-painted-dogs-could-be-cooked-into-extinction-by-climate-change/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist</span><span class="invisible">/2023/08/29/african-painted-dogs-could-be-cooked-into-extinction-by-climate-change/</span></a></p>
Brian Poe<p><a href="https://collapseofindustrialcivilization.com/2018/03/19/evolutionary-dead-ends/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">collapseofindustrialcivilizati</span><span class="invisible">on.com/2018/03/19/evolutionary-dead-ends/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/YouDeserveToKnow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>YouDeserveToKnow</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/plastic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>plastic</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/climate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>climate</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AbruptClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AbruptClimateChange</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/6thMassExtinction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>6thMassExtinction</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/collapse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>collapse</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/economy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>economy</span></a></p><p>Don't shy away from reality. Embrace it, and join others in finding alternative ways to live on Earth. The status quo will become untenable. Adapt early to improve our odds of success.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/degrowth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>degrowth</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/permaculture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>permaculture</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/localfood" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>localfood</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/zerowaste" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>zerowaste</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/StrategicRelocation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StrategicRelocation</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PlantBasedDiet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PlantBasedDiet</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RecalibrateExpectations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RecalibrateExpectations</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/honesty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>honesty</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/awareness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>awareness</span></a></p>