Biocentric

Welcome to Biocentric, a newsletter about sustainability, greenwashing, and resistance to empire. I’m author and organizer Max Wilbert. If you want to follow, you can subscribe for free. Paid subscribers, in return for supporting this publication and the work you see here, receive access to rare private posts with behind-the-scenes reports and unreleased drafts. I can’t do this without support for...

Julie (Djuli) Lomboy is an enrolled member of the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde, and a descendant of Klickitat, Wasco, Chinookan, Molalla, Klamath, Filipino, German, French Canadian and Scandinavian people. She is an assistant teacher at her tribes immersion school where she works with kindergardeners to teach them chinuk wawa, the traditional lingua franca of the region, along with songs, cu...

Welcome to Biocentric, a newsletter about sustainability, greenwashing, and resistance. I’m author and organizer Max Wilbert. If you want to follow, you can subscribe for free. Paid subscribers, in return for supporting this publication and the work you see here, receive access to rare private posts with behind-the-scenes reports and unreleased drafts. From fertilizer shortages to energy disruptio...

Welcome to Biocentric, a newsletter about sustainability, greenwashing, and resistance. I’m author and organizer Max Wilbert. If you want to follow, you can subscribe for free. Paid subscribers, in return for supporting this publication and the activism you see here, receive access to private posts , which contain behind-the-scenes reports and unreleased drafts. On Wednesday, myself and Justin McA...

Welcome to Biocentric, a newsletter about sustainability, greenwashing, and resistance. I’m author and organizer Max Wilbert. If you want to follow, you can subscribe for free. Paid subscribers, in return for supporting this publication and the activism you see here, receive access to private posts , which contain behind-the-scenes reports and unreleased drafts. Topics discussed in this video * Gr...

Welcome to Biocentric, a newsletter about sustainability, greenwashing, and resistance. I’m author and organizer Max Wilbert. If you want to follow, you can subscribe for free. Paid subscribers, in return for supporting this publication and the activism you see here, receive access to private posts , which contain behind-the-scenes reports and unreleased drafts. Last week, I published a piece on I...

“ Truth is the first casualty of war.” — Aeschylus This morning I was joined by my friend Justin McAffee of Collapse Curriculum to discuss the IOF-US attack on Iran. We covered: * The blatant lies being peddled by the Trump Regime as “justifications” for this illegal war of aggression, women’s and human rights, and parallels with the invasions of Afghanistan (2001) and Iraq (2003). As Spain’s Iren...

The United States is a military empire. It’s not a democracy, it’s an inverted totalitarian state in which a guise of representative government is used as cover for an oligarchy — rule by the wealthy. It’s no surprise, then, that the United States is, along with its genocidal partner Israel, bombing Iran in an aggressive, illegal, and unprovoked war. That’s what this country does. Over and over an...

Justin McAffee , author of the indispensable newsletter Collapse Curriculum , has been a friend of mine for nearly a decade now. We met on a prayer run in eastern Nevada in 2018, and since then our paths have spiraled closer. We now live in the same part of western Oregon. On the afternoon of February 24th, we met for the first in what may become a series of live streams to discuss our recent writ...

The Tongass Rainforest in Southeast Alaska is the last great expanse of temperate old growth forest left in the United States, and it has been partially protected since the “Roadless Rule” halted most logging there in 2001. Now, the “biggest threat to the west coast rainforest this century” is here: Bill S.2554, which would permanently privatize 115,200 acres, including 80,000 acres of old-growth...

Hi everyone, A few weeks ago, sat down for a conversation with my friend Tom Grotewohl. Tom is the founder of Protect the Porkies , a community-based organization founded to oppose a copper mine project planned for the Porcupine Mountains of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. Tom and I originally connected in the wake of the Protect Thacker Pass campaign when he reached out in support of the work we were...

Biocentric focuses on resistance against the industrial destruction of our world because I believe this is the central work of our time. It’s also something that even those who agree with are scared of talking about, which is why, as I wrote about two weeks ago , Biocentric will largely focus on eco-sabotage and associated topics this year. The new series began earlier this week, when I posted a r...

Hi everyone, This is an important one. It’s a pair of interviews I conducted just over a week ago with Elder Bill Jones of the Pacheedaht First Nation and Will O’Connell, who have both been key figures in defending ancient forests being logged as you read these words on Vancouver Island. This is a cross-post from the organization that I work for, the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund. Tha...

Hello everyone, On a frosty morning earlier this autumn, I wandered through a roadless area in a national forest in Oregon near my home — a place which has been protected for more than two decades by a policy the Trump Administration is now working to dismantle. Join me on this walk, where I discuss the ongoing repeal of the “roadless rule” and the need for a new forest defense movement to stand b...

Recently I found myself taking a misty walk at dawn along the Columbia River (Wimahl in Chinook, Nchʼi-Wàna in Yakama), the second largest river in the contiguous United States — and one of the most industrialized rivers in the world. Join me on this walk, where I discuss the ecological problems facing the Columbia — headlined by the dams. Guest appearances from the endangered Columbian white-tail...

Hi everyone, In this video, I talk about the rise of AI slop and the weaponization of AI to “flood the zone with s**t” (to quote Steve Bannon), about resistance to the rapid metastasizing of data centers around the world, about the rise of a new luddism as a revolutionary sentiment, and about a piece written by my friend Cris titled “ The War on Truth .” In it, Cris writes: The rise of social medi...

Hi everyone, A few years ago I connected with Aashis Joshi, who at the time was studying for a PhD in climate adaptation and lives in Nepal. I was immediately struck by his clarity of analysis, and in the intervening years we’ve stayed in touch and learned from each other’s work. This interview, cross-posted from Truth and Reckoning (I recommend subscribing if you haven’t already), is one of the m...

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