but we will not be able to enjoy them if this country becomes overpopulated.
Please. The US is in no immediate (or long term for that matter) danger of becoming overpopulated.
Posted on 03/30/2004 7:50:43 AM PST by presidio9
Dick Lamm, public policy gadfly and former Democratic governor of Colorado, is being denounced these days as a right-wing extremist, neo-Nazi and racist. His offense is that he is one of three men running for the Sierra Club board of directors on a platform of limiting immigration to protect the environment. In response, the leadership of the club and its allies have been playing the race card with berserk ferocity. Among the charges are "environmental racism" and the "greening of hate." These arguments assume that any urge to cap or slow immigration is a form of anti-Latino or anti-Asian bigotry. "It's hate," the Sierra Club executive director Carl Pope said of the splinter group endorsing the insurgent candidates. He also said the group, Sierrans for U.S. Population Stabilization, is profoundly infected by "a virus." The candidates tarred by these charges are:
Lamm, who is chairman of the Federation for American Immigration Reform board of advisers.
Frank Morris, retired U.S. foreign service officer and former executive director of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation.
David Pimentel, a Cornell professor who has been studying the impact of population growth on the Earth's carrying capacity. The background of the dispute is that the Sierra Club does not want to make the obvious move for an environmental organization in an era of mass migration - calling for limits on immigration to relieve pressures on the ecosystem. Pope has shamelessly tried to connect Lamm, Morris and Pimentel to the most extreme anti-immigration people. He told The New York Times: "If somebody who isn't a Nazi is put on the ballot by the American Nazi Party" it can be difficult to tell the candidate from his dubious backers. Good grief. Next we will be hearing that Franklin Roosevelt may have been a commie because Stalin fought on his side during World War II.
This is surely an odd episode in Sierra Club history, and getting odder. Lamm and Morris have made an issue of two anonymous donations to the Sierra Club Foundation totaling $102 million. Most directors of the club don't know who the donors are, said Carl Pope, and even the president of the Sierra Club, Larry Fahn, said he doesn't know. Transparency by do-good organizations would be nice.
Morris said he wonders whether the anonymous donors are calling the shots against the three insurgents. Perhaps the Sierra Club thought it could brush away dissent by depicting the dissenters as sinister.
Early media coverage has focused on incendiary charges of a hostile takeover of Sierra by extremists. Soon the media will figure out that the club is actually conducting a smear campaign.
This disgraceful effort by the Sierra Club has turned the spotlight on the leadership itself, its lack of candor about who its powerful donors might be, and its tactic of trying to sway an election with ugly charges. The organization should act quickly to make things right.
FDR was a commie.
Amen.
For: Lamm, Morris, Pimentel, et al
http://www.sierrademocracy.org/
Against: Lamm, Morris, Pimentel, et al
http://www.groundswellsierra.org/takeover_index.php
but we will not be able to enjoy them if this country becomes overpopulated.
Please. The US is in no immediate (or long term for that matter) danger of becoming overpopulated.
Your point is a good one. The Sierra Club sold its soul long ago when they joined the democratic coalition to win elections. They get their environmentalism, they support the gays in their agenda, the socialists in their agenda, the multiculturalists in their agenda, and there is the problem. the multiculturalists are open to all cultures being equal, and equally immigrating to the US. You cannot serve two masters, and the Sierra Club is almost not an environmental organization anymore.
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