The group leading the resistance to the Lithium Nevada mine proposal is openly, defiantly outside the American mainstream — against capitalism, against industrialization and electrification, and “proudly Luddite in character.”
The self-described “radical environmental movement dedicated to stopping the murder of the planet,” says it wants not just to shut down a mine but in time to eliminate the country’s industrial base in a bid to prevent a global ecological collapse. And the power of their mainstream opponents means that new methods of resistance are needed.
Will Falk, a Deep Green Resistance activist, said in an email that U.