How the Far Left Killed the Sierra Club

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

+1

I thought Sierra Club was already far left, further losing relevancy from the mainstream. It’s on them for deciding to go broader without adequate funding.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

+1

I thought Sierra Club was already far left, further losing relevancy from the mainstream. It’s on them for deciding to go broader without adequate funding.

It is much more than just going broader without the funding. As a single cause group they could draw support from many people/groups that might disagree on other issues.

There are tons of people who support environmental causes that aren’t far left politically, but if you embrace every far left cause du jour you end up alienating anyone not far left. (And let’s face it, there are a ton of far left political/advocacy groups competing for the same donations.)

[Anonymous]

"Death Sprial"

They have more donations in each of the last 6 years than 7+ years ago.
They overspent in the last 2 years, expecting a boost in donations to persist long term.

[Anonymous]

Let’s not forget general management and leadership ineptitude and incompetence. The most recent executive director was fired for cause after running the org into the ground while providing executives extravagant salaries and firing staffers, amid multiple sexual harassment allegations and then subsequently blamed his ouster on racism.

[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.

^^^ not only a BOT, but a horribly stupidly programmed BOT! ^^^

[Anonymous]

None of these environmental action charities are immune from self destructive behavior. It’s not a phenomenon isolated to The Sierra Club.

I left The Nature Conservancy a decade ago when I saw how much money they were spending on wayyyyyy overvalued parcels of land that were frankly unsuited to any other use to begin with. They were buying floodplain lots and marshes in a frenzy, and spending absurd amounts of money on them. This is land that literally has no other purpose other than being flooded with water most of the year. It will never be suitable for any kind of development, even aside from the EPA regs that would prohibit building on it anyway. But that didn’t stop TNC from paying way over top dollar for them.

That’s not being a good steward of the hard earned after tax dollars I sent them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

+1

I thought Sierra Club was already far left, further losing relevancy from the mainstream. It’s on them for deciding to go broader without adequate funding.

It is much more than just going broader without the funding. As a single cause group they could draw support from many people/groups that might disagree on other issues.

There are tons of people who support environmental causes that aren’t far left politically, but if you embrace every far left cause du jour you end up alienating anyone not far left. (And let’s face it, there are a ton of far left political/advocacy groups competing for the same donations.)

Also, leftists, by and large, don’t have any money in the first place. Targeting a relatively small group of people that havw no money is a terrible way to run an organization that relies on donations to operate.