https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/us/politics/sierra-club-social-justice.html

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All the game bird orgs (Pheasants Forever, Ducks Unlimited, Wild Turkey Federation) are largely backed by hunters so they have pretty sane and specific goals around habitat preservation and stuff

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Wow, who could have seen that coming?

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this guy is a man o' war verified octaroon lmao

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lol.

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Its secret was focus, according to activists involved. The club put its energy behind the single, measurable goal of closing all of the country’s 500-plus carbon-spewing, coal-fired power plants. Armed with more than $120 million from billionaire Michael Bloomberg, they used lawsuits, petitions and protests to convince regulators and utilities that coal plants were too dirty and expensive to keep operating.

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The club agreed to expand the number of staff covered by an employee union, and to raise union members’ salaries by an average of more than 30 percent over five years. Even the union was surprised.

“We were thrilled,” said Larry Williams Jr., who was president of the union at the time. “I had people calling me crying, saying, ‘Because of your contract, I was able to buy my first bike and bike to work,’ or pay my rent.”

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At the same time, the club asked its supporters to agree with positions farther from the environmental causes that had attracted them in the first place.

It issued an “equity language guide,” which warned employees to be cautious about using the words “vibrant” and “hardworking,” because they reinforced racist tropes. “Lame duck session” was out, because “lame” was offensive. Even “Americans” should be avoided, the guide said, because it excluded non-U. S. citizens.

After the murder of George Floyd in 2020, the group called for defunding the police and providing reparations for slavery.

The club even turned on its own founder, John Muir, with Mr. Brune saying the environmental icon had used “deeply harmful racist stereotypes” in his writings about Native Americans and Black people in the 1860s.

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The club said that was meant to address the “problematic lack of diversity and inclusion in the environmental movement and to make the Sierra Club a welcoming and supportive place to work for all employees.”

“I said, ‘We have two F.T.E.s devoted to Trump’s war on the Arctic refuge, and we have 108 going to D.E.I., and I don’t think we have our priorities straight,’” Mr. Dougherty said, using the acronyms for “full-time employees” and “diversity, equity and inclusion.”

Mr. Dougherty said no other board members agreed, and the budget passed.

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“Palestine is an environmental issue from our standpoint,” Erica Dodt, the president of the Progressive Workers’ Union, which includes Sierra Club employees, said in an interview. “People are a huge part of our environment.”

The club postponed the trips. But Sierra Club officials said the club heard a backlash from donors including Mr. Bloomberg, the major funder of “Beyond Coal” who also gave to humanitarian causes in Israel. His staff declined to comment. The Sierra Club said he is still a donor.

Within days, the Sierra Club reversed itself and announced more trips to Israel.

The back and forth meant few people were satisfied. The next month, the group’s count of champions fell by 130,000, one of the largest decreases in a single month.

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“One of the staff said, ‘That’s fine, Delia. But what do wolves have to do with equity, justice and inclusion?’" Ms. Malone said.

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Even that is relatively new to the Sierra Club, which, at it's core was--and maybe still is--an environmental preservation organization. Climite change can be a part of that, but it's far from the be all, end all. The Sierra Club used to focus on prerving and protecting and enjoying the natural environment. Whether that was for clean water or clean air or climate change or just because it was the right thing to do was secondary.

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The blackest coal will light our country's hearth.

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