Max Wilbert

So what can I do to help those things that we've harmed? And I'm a very small part in that, right? But that's what I feel is like I want to limit the harm as best I can.

Now, you take someone like Max Wilbert, who is a co-author of this book, Bright Green Lies, which is all about the fallacy of green energy, and ask what does his activism look like? Well, among other things, he he camped out for I think was over a month to prevent a hilltop being excavated.

I forget whether it was as a lithium mine or for wind towers or whatever it was.

Right.

And I'm really grateful for our translators, Eren and Müge.

Waking up early today to be with us is Max Wilbert.

Good morning and welcome, Max.

Max Wilbert is a writer, organizer, activist, and a wilderness guide.

He is author of several books, including Bright Green Lies, How the Environmental Movement Lost Its Way and What We Can Do About It, which Bandana Shiva called a much-needed wake-up call.

max has been part of grassroots political movements for 20 years taking direct action to halt fossil fuels and most recently launching a campaign to stop a lithium mine i think it's called tracker pass he writes the newsletter biocentric on substack and his work often appears in alternative media he is now working for a master's degree in d growth He was fined $49,000 for protesting, and he is also working to defend old growth forests in Oregon.