Isaac Thornley is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Human Geography and the Institute for Environment, Conservation, and Sustainability at University of Toronto Scarborough. He researches environmental conflicts tied to resource and infrastructure development in Canada, such as pipelines, mining roads, and data centres. His work combines political ecology and social theory (especially, psychoanalytic Marxism) to analyze the political, economic, and ideological terrain of climate change and energy transitions. He works collaboratively on multiple research projects, including 8th Fire Rising, Infrastructure Beyond Extractivism, and Trade Unions and Labour Environmentalism (TULE). He has been active in multiple unions (CUPE 3902 and CUPE 3903), advocating for improvements to wages, working conditions, and job security. As a gay / bisexual / queer / LGBTQ+ person / Lacanian subject, he is ambivalent about the role of sex and joy in emancipatory environmental politics.