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Originally published in the April 4, 2004 issue of the Alamance Independent
SIERRA CLUB NAÏVE LEADERS
Sierra Club is an over 100 years old and half million members-strong organization that made preservation of the environment for future generations its foremost goal. As noble as such cause might seem, many of the Club's national and local leaders exhibit the intelligence of teenagers when it comes to dealing with the most dangerous threat to the environment - out of control population growth. Not that these leaders, many of whom hold advanced degrees from Ivy League schools, weren't equipped by Mother Nature with high IQ, but they act as if they were embarrassed with their superior intellectual potential and put a muzzle on their minds it in order to not look racist, nativist, or xenophobic.
Recently, I came across Southern Sierran monthly newspaper published by the L.A. Chapter of the Sierra Club, and was amazed with naïveté of otherwise (supposedly) intelligent people who contributed to it. The issue (Vol. 60 No. 4) was devoted to the air quality "as [according to the newspaper] Southern California gets more bad air days." The newspaper indicated that until recently, "the region's air had been getting cleaner" but "a new report indicates that particulate pollution shows no signs of improvement." It pointed out to up to 20-fold increase (relative to maximum federal standards) of cancer risk due to smog and air pollution. This pretty alarming state of affair must surprise no one (see [1]), as hundreds of thousands of "migrants" (a.k.a. illegal aliens") pour into the Golden State each year from countries, like Mexico, where environmentalists are generally considered gutless jerks, contributing disproportionately to depletion of SoCal air quality and degradation of the environment. As the U.S. census data demonstrate, virtually all net population growth in California is due to foreign immigration and immigrant (legal and otherwise) women's high fertility rates.
It doesn't take an Einstein to connect the dots in this puzzle, but the Southern Sierran seems blind and deaf on the mounting evidence. Even though on p. 6 in an article "The future looks hazy", its author wrote that the air is "worst in our poorest, minority neighborhoods" (what he meant were the areas mostly affected by mass "migration" and explosive population growth of stunning 2.65% a year), he failed to even ask the question if there is a causality relationship between the "migration" triggered explosive population growth and dramatically deteriorating air quality.
As you could expect from those who don't let their minds to wander in such dangerous fringes of intellectual inquiry, the Southern Sierran proposed that the Americans opt for "reduction of excessive consumption" and change their habits to use more carpooling or public transportation. Rather than getting to the root cause of the problem, the newspaper blamed the auto industry adds, "car dealers ads, gasoline adds, tire adds, repair adds, insurance adds, and the like," for promotion of "car-based lifestyle". Not even a single mention was made of how the most recent attempts of issuing driver's licenses to millions of California's illegal aliens, many of them driving grossly polluting, old vehicles, would nullify the effects of Americans' self-sacrifice of abandoning their traditional lifestyles.
That's right. It looks like the only reason why we are being pushed to give up the convenience of individual car transportation (and other benefits of "excessive consumption") is to make it possible for millions more Mexicans to move into America and have "their" share of American dream, which includes polluting cars, air conditioners, disposable goods, and other items responsible for air pollution, too. Southern Sierran goes as far as to suggest (in an article "The global population-environment connection" on p. 3) that in order to reduce "the global population" (any attempts to reduce the population of the U.S. would be deemed "racist", of course), calling for "voluntary domestic and international family planning", which will accomplish no more than making more room for Mexican "migrants" and their countless kids. Mexicans, who, generally, have environmental concerns for nothing (see [2]), not only have as many kids as they can feed, but they manage to have well-meaning Americans to pay for their reproductive excesses. (See [3] for an example of 2+9 Mexican family, a picture below, that took advantage of Orange County Community Housing Corporation's subsidized housing for "large families". They made suckers of all those Sierra Club members who opted for no children or one child only out of overpopulation concern.)
A Mexican family with nine kids enjoys "cheap housing" in Orange County, California; picture [right] from [3].There is some good news on the horizon. Many Sierra Club members are mad as hell and are not going to take it anymore. They launched recently a grass-root effort that aims at electing new Club Directors that are not afraid to indict the mass uncontrolled "migration" and population growth it causes as the main reason of America's environmental problems. So far, the "old guard" fiercely resists the change (now, they don't act as if they had IQ of teenagers) and calls on Club membership to reject any attempts to include "non-environmental" issues (mass "migration", that is) in Club's agenda. Let's wish the grass-rooters good luck in their struggle against their muzzle-minded adversaries. Hopefully, they will restore some credibility to their 100 years old environmental cause.
[1] The Proof of the Pudding
http://www.americanpatrol.com/GUESTCOLUMNS/DWYER/ProofInThePudding040216.html[2] Memo From Mexico, Diversity Is Strength. It's AlsoLitter
http://www.vdare.com/awall/litterbugs.htm[3] The Gutierrez Family, Finding Their Way Home
http://www.occhc.org/news.html
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