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Posted on 01/13/2003 8:29:19 AM PST by freepyone
You can't ask for a better admission of hipocracy than what we've received from the wackos at the Sierra Club. The email was sent to their enviromental911 address as a polical statement against their employees owning multiple homes in the states. Please read the email chain below (emails have been put in chronological order for ease of reading):
From: M&T Karcher [karchers@thekarchergroup.com]
To:environmental911@sierraclub.org
Subject: Homes
01/08/2003 03:52 PM
I read an article that said some of the people who work for your organization have more thean one home. A second home can waste more than twelve times the energy of one SUV. Can you confirm that no officers or corporate employees have second homes? How can we stop this destruction of the enviornment?
-----Original Message-----
From: Information@sierraclub.org
[mailto:Information@sierraclub.org]
Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2003 4:02 PM
To: karchers@thekarchergroup.com
Subject: Homes
Hello Mr. and Mrs. Karcher,
Thank you for contacting the Sierra Club. I'm sorry, but I cannot confirm or deny if any of our officers own 2 (or more) homes. I've never heard this, myself. Does one question whether a schoolteacher has children of their own? Or if an Avon distributor uses the products? Was Bill Clinton thrown out of office for infidelity? No, though we all agree his behavior out of office was wrong. I think you see the irony here - personal choices and professional commitment sometimes mesh, but usually they do not! The Sierra Club is the most influential non-profit organization in the country and we pride ourselves behind our methodology. Out successes and accomplishment are many.
Comparing SUV pollution to that of a home is not quite valid - SUV's emit toxic CO2 into the air as well as 100 other chemicals, and have been a catalyst to an already dangerous level of ozone depletion, as well as burning away finite resources of gasoline at an alarming rate. I've received many emails from family's who strive to conserve inside and out of their homes reducing their overall consumption, recycling, utilizing alternative energy sources (ie, energy efficient fireplaces, solar energy panels, etc), and using hybrid vehicles for running about town.
For your information, here at the San Francisco headquarters, most employees conserve as best they can. We have a bike room to encourage biking to work, a commuter voucher program to encourage the use of public transportation, recycling bins for glass, plastic, cans, paper (mixed and white), cardboard, batteries, and office supplies. . . the list goes on. We are people just like you, who do our best to promote the Sierra Club mission statement in our personal lives, but what we do in our personal lives is what works for us and should not be infringed upon.
Happy New Year,
Stasea-Noelle
Sierra Club Member Services
I can even respond to this without laughing
What's the difference between a conservationalist and a developer? The conservationalist already has his home in the country.
It's a lot like Redford several years back protesting a mining operation in Utah (?). It would have destroyed a pristine wildernes and spoiled the environment. Of course, it also could have been seen from his out-of-the-way palace and the Sierra Club helped him keep it that way.
Just the name alone adds to my hatred for the Sierra Club. Blech...who makes up names like that?
With a name like that he/she probably also works the AOL helpdesk.
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I demand to see her birth certificate, but not a photocopy - I don't want to destroy any more trees than necessary.
I couldn't have said it better myself!!! I am going to quote Ms. Hyphenated in my next correspondence with any newspaper or other media outlet when they are trying to make a fallacious charge against SUVs.
We are going to have to make up a new word for this extrapolation of hypocrisy!
But isn't that exactly what they're critizing the public for? They scream that what works for us in our personal lives promotes ecological destruction, and (if you believe Norman Lear)even promotes terrorism! Do the Hollywood types who pass judgement on us poor groundlings, people like Mr. Lear, Arianna Huffington, Tony Danza, Barbra Streisand, et al., and even these hypocrites in the Sierra Club think that their personal cars, their chartered jets, their collection of classic but fuel-ineffecient toys, etc. are somehow exempt from the laws of physics? I heard of having brass, but these people make the bells of St. Peter's basilica look like they're made out of tin foil...
CO2 is toxic now? Yeah it just seems to kill all those plants doesn't it.
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