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Title: How the Sierra Club Was Hijacked by Open Borders Radicals
Source: Californians for Population Stabilization (CAPS)
URL Source: https://www.capsweb.org/blog/how-si ... hijacked-open-borders-radicals
Published: Apr 9, 2014
Author: Gene Nelson, Ph.D.
Post Date: 2019-09-29 09:34:16 by GreyLmist
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Keywords: Open Borders Advocacy, Environmentalists, Greens, Progressives
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To explore, enjoy, and protect the planet. To practice and promote the responsible use of the Earth’s ecosystems and resources; to educate and enlist humanity to protect and restore the quality of the natural and human environment; and to use all lawful means to carry out those objectives. – Sierra Club mission statement

With the Sierra Club's advocacy for “open borders” procured by multimillionaire David Gelbaum circa 2004, the above mission statement has become a meaningless paragraph of puffery, as the rapidly expanding population of the United States, driven by record numbers of immigrants, causes unprecedented environmental destruction and loss of wild lands.

Here's a fawning profile about Gelbaum from the Los Angeles Times (The West 100 - THE POWER ISSUE - Our list of the most powerful people in Southern California, August 13, 2006):

Under the guidance of politically savvy environmentalist David Myers, Gelbaum's gifts have protected enough mountain and desert land to create another Yosemite National Park ... Crucial tracts of the Mojave National Preserve have been protected, thanks to the Wildlands Conservancy, which Gelbaum cofounded. These days, the conservancy finds itself in the thick of the debate over the development of Tejon Ranch in the Tehachapi Mountains. The Gelbaum- backed group, along with the Sierra Club and others, wants to reduce the amount of the ranch that will be paved and preserve 245,000 acres as wilderness – a tussle that will help define the limits of growth in Southern California.

The Sierra Club's open borders advocacy has become more strident with their support of a Washington, DC demonstration scheduled for today. I would not be surprised to learn that David Gelbaum is bankrolling this event.

To better understand how the Sierra Club has become in large part a proxy organization supporting open borders it is helpful to review a few paragraphs of another Los Angeles Times news story, this one from 2004:

COLUMN ONE - The Man Behind the Land

By Kenneth R. Weiss, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer

October 27, 2004

....In 2001, Gelbaum branched out with two back-to-back anonymous gifts to the Sierra Club Foundation [$101.5 million in donations] that dwarfed all previous individual contributions to the club.

....he said [Carl] Pope [former Executive Director of the Sierra Club; appointed in 1992; served until January 20, 2010; succeeded by Michael Brune] long had known where he stood on the contentious [Proposition 187] issue. ‘I did tell Carl Pope in 1994 or 1995 that if they ever came out anti-immigration, they would never get a dollar from me.’ ... [Gelbaum] donated more than $180,000 to the campaign to oppose Proposition 187. After the measure passed, he said, he donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to civil rights lawyers who ultimately got the measure struck down in court.

Gelbaum, who reads the Spanish-language newspaper La Opinión and is married to a Mexican American, said his views on immigration were shaped long ago by his grandfather, Abraham, a watchmaker who had come to America to escape persecution of Jews in Ukraine before World War I. “I asked [him], ‘Abe, what do you think about all of these Mexicans coming here?’” Gelbaum said. “Abe didn't speak English that well. He said, ‘I came here. How can I tell them not to come?’

“I cannot support an organization that is anti-immigration. It would dishonor the memory of my grandparents.”

An excellent October 2009 Jerry Kammer article [.pdf], “Strategic Negligence: How the Sierra Club’s Distortions on Border and Immigration Policy Are Undermining Its Environmental Legacy,” with 35 references, summarizes how the Sierra Club has been subsequently used as a tool for open borders advocacy.

As a former Sierra Club member, I found this sellout to be repugnant. I hope that the connection between overpopulation and environmental destruction will be restored by the Sierra Club and that they will repudiate the policies procured from 2004 to present by multimillionaire David Gelbaum and his allies.


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[Author] Gene [Nelson] earned a Ph.D. in Natural Science in 1984. He has written extensively about the harm of large-scale immigration to the U.S. He testified twice in the U.S. House of Representatives and twice to the National Academy of Sciences regarding the the controversial H-1B visa program.

The writer's views are his own.

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DOES THE SIERRA CLUB BELIEVE IN BORDERS? IT DEPENDS by Leon Kolankiewicz | May 23, 2013

The Sierra Club board of directors recent vote to back amnesty for illegal immigrants and support vastly increased levels of legal immigration is, when all is said and done, a vote for open borders, or no borders at all. At least our nation’s borders, that is.

Can you imagine the Sierra Club board voting to open the borders of Yosemite National Park to any and all comers, or better yet, eliminating Yosemite’s boundaries altogether?

Henceforth, the Board of Directors of the Sierra Club urges that – because all man-made borders and boundaries are unnatural, arbitrary, and un-ecological, mere lines on a map, and not etched on the ground or in nature – Yosemite National Park should welcome not just campers and hikers, but loggers, miners, ranchers, developers, dam builders, off-road-vehicle enthusiasts, hunters, trappers, cabin owners, and land speculators.

It is unfair to exclude these hardworking folks and outdoor recreationists, who after all, provide valuable social and economic products and services to society. They have just as much right to use and enjoy our precious public lands as do all human beings.

Can’t imagine the Sierra Club board ever voting to open Yosemite’s closed boundaries? Could it be that the boundaries of national parks – and national forests, national wildlife refuges, and designated national wilderness areas – are more sacrosanct to club leaders than their own country’s borders? That would indeed appear to be the case, for this organization that prides itself on protecting the planet.

Once, the Sierra Club focused on protecting America’s wild lands and environment, while the global commons – the biosphere, atmosphere, and oceans – was an important but secondary interest. The Club acknowledged that its ability – and Americans’ ability – to effect change on the global scale was limited.

Nowadays at the Sierra Club , any preference for saving U.S. environmental treasures first and foremost is implicitly considered parochial, outmoded, and futile, if not outright exclusionary and xenophobic. This contrasts sharply with the earlier, more patriotic orientation of the Club, when its emphasis was preserving American resources and landscapes for posterity.

The abandoned approach of old was perhaps best exemplified in the 1960s-era book and poster unabashedly entitled “THIS IS THE AMERICAN EARTH.” The poster I remember vividly featured the dramatic and famous Ansel Adams black and white photograph of the Sierra Nevada Range (John Muir’s “Range of Light”) from Lone Pine, California in the Owens Valley. The shining Sierra peaks pierce the heavens behind the brooding Alabama Hills, deep in shadow. The fluted crest of Mt. Whitney, highest point in the Lower 48, soars nearly 14,500 feet skyward.

Setting aside wild places like these rank among the Sierra Club’s greatest achievements. Given the Club leadership’s current priorities and sensibilities, however, they would probably sneer at such small-mindedness. Protecting the planet, after all, means expanding one’s horizons to embrace the Earth’s salvation, and not just the playgrounds of elitist backpackers.

In their quixotic quest to protect the planet, however, Club leadership has thrown the overpopulated, overstressed American landscape under the bus. In spurning U.S. borders while endorsing amnesty and expanded legal immigration – and the virtually unlimited U.S. population growth these portend – the effete Sierra Club leadership has in essence said it doesn’t care about protecting the Central Valley, Sierra foothills, Puget Sound, Chesapeake Bay, the Front Range of the Rockies, the Everglades, and American forests that are falling to make way for population-driven sprawl. More American wildlife species will become endangered and extinct as American environmentalists overlook them in their misguided penchant to save the world.

And the borders the Sierra Club apparently does support – of national parks and the like – will be more and more meaningless as overpopulation besieges them.


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[Author] Leon [Kolankiewicz] is an Advisory Board Member and Senior Writing Fellow with CAPS. A wildlife biologist, and environmental scientist and planner, Leon is the author of Where Salmon Come to Die: An Autumn on Alaska's Raincoast, the essay “Overpopulation versus Biodiversity” in Environment and Society: A Reader and was a contributing writer to Life on the Brink: Environmentalists Confront Overpopulation.

In a career that spans three decades, three countries and more than 30 states, Leon has managed environmental impact statements for many federal agencies on projects ranging from dams and reservoirs to coal-fired power plants, power lines, flood control projects, road expansions, management of Civil War battlefields, NASA's Kennedy Space Center operations and a proposed uranium mine on a national forest. He also has worked with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to develop comprehensive conservation plans at more than 40 national wildlife refuges from the Caribbean to Alaska.

The writer's views are his own.

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GreyLmist  posted on  2019-09-29   20:29:07 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#10. To: GreyLmist (#6)

So these bastards and bitches are actually promoting the invasion! It's betrayals every day now.

NeoconsNailed  posted on  2019-09-29   23:58:12 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


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#11. To: NeoconsNailed (#10)

It's betrayals every day now.

Soros has financed color revolutions all over. What makes you think he is not doing the same dirt here in the U.S.A.? ;)

BTP Holdings  posted on  2019-09-30 00:05:49 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#12. To: NeoconsNailed (#10) (Edited)

So these [expletives] are actually promoting the invasion! It's betrayals every day now.

Yep -- Betrayals with a capital "B".

GreyLmist  posted on  2019-09-30 00:08:54 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


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