William Lindsey Feb 23

"On February 6, four direct descendants of President Theodore Roosevelt wrote to United States senators to ask them to vote against a measure that opens up the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCAW) in Minnesota to the Chilean mining giant Antofagasta Plc and its subsidiary Twin Metals Minnesota."

~ Heather Cox Richardson

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https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/february-22-2026

February 22, 2026

On February 6, four direct descendants of President Theodore Roosevelt wrote to United States senators to ask them to vote against a measure that opens up the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCAW) in Minnesota to the Chilean mining giant Antofagasta Plc and its subsidiary Twin Metals Minnesota.

Letters from an American
Show threadWilliam Lindsey Feb 23

"Antofagasta wants to build a copper-nickel mine just outside the BWCAW on national forest land. ...

The Roosevelts noted that the proposed mining is 'the opposite of America First.' 'The mining company in question is foreign owned, will use Chinese state-owned smelters, and will then sell the extracted metals on the open market.'”

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Show threadWilliam Lindsey Feb 23

"Opening the area to mining 'removes the American public from public land decision making,' as hundreds of thousands of Americans have made it clear they overwhelmingly want the BWCAW protected forever."

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Show threadWilliam Lindsey Feb 23

"From Donald Trump in the United States and Javier Milei in Argentina to the far-right resurgence in many parts of Europe, the pattern is unmistakable: The convergence of ecological disaster, resource scarcity, a flagging and disoriented liberalism, and climate-driven displacement leads to an authoritarian turn."

~ Kohei Saito

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https://www.thenation.com/article/society/free-gift-alyssa-battistoni-capitalism-enclosure-nature/

How Capitalism Transformed the Natural World

In her new book, Alyssa Battistoni explores how nature came to be treated as a supposedly cost-free supplement of capital accumulation.

The Nation
Show threadWilliam Lindsey 

"Nature itself has ceased to be a neutral backdrop to politics and has become instead a primary terrain of conflict—as seen in the fights over arable land and rare metals, in the inflation driven by crop failures and energy volatility, and in the desperate movements of climate refugees."

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Feb 23 at 10:26pmWeb
Show threadWilliam Lindsey Feb 23

"In a world increasingly marked by 'climate barbarism'—a world in which floods, fires, and resource shortages fuel authoritarian responses rather than solidarity—this combined politics of nature and freedom [proposed by Alyssa Battistoni in her book Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature] might be the only sustainable alternative."

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Show threadWilliam Lindsey Feb 23

"[The choice] is between a politics that treats nature as a site of capital’s domination and a democratic politics that centers collective agency within our shared and fragile ecological conditions."

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Show threadNicole ParsonsFeb 24

@wdlindsy

#TranslatedFromTheRepublican

"As long a Republican billionaire donor is making money, America will sell its birthright for a bowl of pottage."

https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/sell+(one%27s)+birthright+for+a+mess+of+pottage