How the Far Left Killed the Sierra Club

[Anonymous]

Sierra Club is in a death spiral.

“The group has lost 60 percent of the four million members and supporters it counted in 2019. It has held three rounds of employee layoffs since 2022, trying to climb out of a $40 million projected budget deficit.”

What happened?

“During Mr. Trump’s first term, when the Sierra Club was flush with donations, its leaders sought to expand far beyond environmentalism, embracing other progressive causes. Those included racial justice, labor rights, gay rights, immigrant rights and more. They stand by that shift today.”

Predictably, a sh*tshow ensued, complete with absurd language guidelines (barring the use of the words “vibrant”, “hard-working”, “American” and the phrase “lame duck”) and degenerating into a circular firing squad of internal investigations.

Complete catastrophe.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/us/politics/sierra-club-social-justice.html?unlocked_article_code=1.zU8.sNby.J0zUKG0OY_mu&smid=url-share

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sierra Club is in a death spiral.

“The group has lost 60 percent of the four million members and supporters it counted in 2019. It has held three rounds of employee layoffs since 2022, trying to climb out of a $40 million projected budget deficit.”

What happened?

“During Mr. Trump’s first term, when the Sierra Club was flush with donations, its leaders sought to expand far beyond environmentalism, embracing other progressive causes. Those included racial justice, labor rights, gay rights, immigrant rights and more. They stand by that shift today.”

Predictably, a sh*tshow ensued, complete with absurd language guidelines (barring the use of the words “vibrant”, “hard-working”, “American” and the phrase “lame duck”) and degenerating into a circular firing squad of internal investigations.

Complete catastrophe.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/us/politics/sierra-club-social-justice.html?unlocked_article_code=1.zU8.sNby.J0zUKG0OY_mu&smid=url-share

Sounds like the right cancel another environmental group. This is what the right is all about.

[Anonymous]

Someone can’t read ^^

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sierra Club is in a death spiral.

“The group has lost 60 percent of the four million members and supporters it counted in 2019. It has held three rounds of employee layoffs since 2022, trying to climb out of a $40 million projected budget deficit.”

What happened?

“During Mr. Trump’s first term, when the Sierra Club was flush with donations, its leaders sought to expand far beyond environmentalism, embracing other progressive causes. Those included racial justice, labor rights, gay rights, immigrant rights and more. They stand by that shift today.”

Predictably, a sh*tshow ensued, complete with absurd language guidelines (barring the use of the words “vibrant”, “hard-working”, “American” and the phrase “lame duck”) and degenerating into a circular firing squad of internal investigations.

Complete catastrophe.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/us/politics/sierra-club-social-justice.html?unlocked_article_code=1.zU8.sNby.J0zUKG0OY_mu&smid=url-share

Sounds like the right cancel another environmental group. This is what the right is all about.

Yes, Republicans are (in)famous for barring the use of the term “American”.

/s

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sierra Club is in a death spiral.

“The group has lost 60 percent of the four million members and supporters it counted in 2019. It has held three rounds of employee layoffs since 2022, trying to climb out of a $40 million projected budget deficit.”

What happened?

“During Mr. Trump’s first term, when the Sierra Club was flush with donations, its leaders sought to expand far beyond environmentalism, embracing other progressive causes. Those included racial justice, labor rights, gay rights, immigrant rights and more. They stand by that shift today.”

Predictably, a sh*tshow ensued, complete with absurd language guidelines (barring the use of the words “vibrant”, “hard-working”, “American” and the phrase “lame duck”) and degenerating into a circular firing squad of internal investigations.

Complete catastrophe.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/us/politics/sierra-club-social-justice.html?unlocked_article_code=1.zU8.sNby.J0zUKG0OY_mu&smid=url-share

Yeah, it came pretty clear that they didn't share the same values I had regarding the environment during Trump's term. Any "local" environment issue was ignored, only climate change matters. The vast majority of Democrats live in urban asphalt deserts perfectly happy to drive pollution mobiles. Nuclear is the new clean. By clean they mean power supply that doesn't have those nasty brown outs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Someone can’t read ^^

No Republicans are cancel culture

[Anonymous]

The far left is as bad as the far right.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Someone can’t read ^^

No Republicans are cancel culture

Proving yet again you are unable to actually read. Please stop embarrassing yourself.

[Anonymous]

Glad to see there is finally a backlash to the ridiculous overstepping of “social issues.” This organization did so much good - until they went off the cliff on totally unrelated issues.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Glad to see there is finally a backlash to the ridiculous overstepping of “social issues.” This organization did so much good - until they went off the cliff on totally unrelated issues.

No this was a backlash against maga interest. Everything they touch they break or in this case cancel. Can’t have any blacks or women in your organization or TPUSA will come after you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Glad to see there is finally a backlash to the ridiculous overstepping of “social issues.” This organization did so much good - until they went off the cliff on totally unrelated issues.

No this was a backlash against maga interest. Everything they touch they break or in this case cancel. Can’t have any blacks or women in your organization or TPUSA will come after you.

lol. Read the article

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The far left is as bad as the far right.

Agreed. Extremism sucks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sierra Club is in a death spiral.

“The group has lost 60 percent of the four million members and supporters it counted in 2019. It has held three rounds of employee layoffs since 2022, trying to climb out of a $40 million projected budget deficit.”

What happened?

“During Mr. Trump’s first term, when the Sierra Club was flush with donations, its leaders sought to expand far beyond environmentalism, embracing other progressive causes. Those included racial justice, labor rights, gay rights, immigrant rights and more. They stand by that shift today.”

Predictably, a sh*tshow ensued, complete with absurd language guidelines (barring the use of the words “vibrant”, “hard-working”, “American” and the phrase “lame duck”) and degenerating into a circular firing squad of internal investigations.

Complete catastrophe.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/us/politics/sierra-club-social-justice.html?unlocked_article_code=1.zU8.sNby.J0zUKG0OY_mu&smid=url-share

They also retreated from wanting to protect the environment.

1980. A Sierra Club representative testified before the federal Select Commission on Immigration and Refugee Policy, saying: "It is obvious that the number of immigrants the United States accepts affects our population size and growth rate. It is perhaps less well known the extent to which immigration policy, even more than the number of children per family, is the determinant of the future numbers of Americans."

1992. A few weeks after Carl Pope became the club's executive director, he presented his views in a letter to the editor of the New York Times. Pope wrote that the club believed that all nations "should act to curb their own population growth." He added: "The United States and other developed nations have a special responsibility because of our disproportionate per capita consumption of world resources. Our goal in the United States should be achieving domestic population stabilization."

2018. After the precedent set by its comments on DACA, in 2018 the club began putting out frequent statements condemning a range of immigration-related policies under the Trump administration. For example, in April, Brune said the Sierra Club opposed the construction of a border wall and of the administration's push to speed up deportation proceedings, calling it "xenophobic". In June, in response to the "zero tolerance" policy and family separations at the border, the club attacked the administration for its decision to "jail and cage kids", and Brune called for a stop to "Trump's racist agenda".

https://cis.org/Immigration-Studies/Brief-Chronology-Sierra-Clubs-Retreat-ImmigrationPopulation-Connection-Updated

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Glad to see there is finally a backlash to the ridiculous overstepping of “social issues.” This organization did so much good - until they went off the cliff on totally unrelated issues.

No this was a backlash against maga interest. Everything they touch they break or in this case cancel. Can’t have any blacks or women in your organization or TPUSA will come after you.

lol. Read the article

+1
The PP is clearly illiterate.

[Anonymous]

I’m not going to read the article but the sierra club has not been super relevant for a long time now.
They also went heavy heavy into a litigation strategy a long time ago and the courts just haven’t been that friendly for progressive plaintiffs so that hasn’t been a great strategy for a while.
I give our environmental $$$ elsewhere.