John Muir No Longer Relevant?

[oldranger]

Dave54

I'm not in disagreement with anything in your last post.

Mike

[Vaca Russ]

Harold Wood takes the author of this article to task in the attached video.

http://www.c-span.org/video/?322586-1/d ... -john-muir" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

He is the Sierra Club's John Muir Education Team Chair. Scroll past the 16 minute introduction by "Bay Area Backroads" host Doug McConnell to get to Harold's speech.

Thanks,

-Russ

[SSSdave]

Vast amounts of knowledge and understanding has been increasingly built across the decades given the modern science era. Why are they so afraid of something that they need to bring up Muir's dated positions and be critical? Ordinary environmentalist citizens don't push Muir's ideas like they were sacred ideas to forever be blindly followed. No the author and his friends have different agendas and seem to think attacking Muir has value. And I hope it blows up in their face.

The author and others like him that tend to dominate environmentalist organization power structures are significant reasons I stopped supporting the Sierra Club long ago though are on the side of many of their issues. The following snippet shows their colors and their true PC political interests:

Yet "the conservation movement reflects the legacy of John Muir, and its influence on a certain demographic — older and white — and that's a problem," Christensen said.

For many communities of color, nature of great significance isn't out there in distant charismatic Sierra peaks; it's in urban parks, in local mountains and along local rivers — and under their fingertips in the stuff they grow in their own backyards," he said.

The SF Bay Area has a long history being at the hub of environmentalism. Sometime in the late 80s to 90s urban politically oriented members rose into power and reformed the organization allowing small groups the national organization supported to influence considerable urban land use issues. Many of these people were degreed people from legal, political, and university professions. In other words they hijacked the club to further urban political agendas. Not to say urban land use issues for natural areas has its place but rather that is NOT where Muir's passion lay. And that is likely exactly why those like the author are interested in further sticking their crowbars into the chasm between the traditional purpose of such organizations and their leader's agendas. Ironically when they are on membership and financial support drives, it is always our special rural and wilderness areas they talk up as why people ought support them and not blocking some SF Peninsula housing project in city limits they spend so much effort (and funds) on.

That also shows with the all the manipulative media releases and lawsuit monkeywrenching against green energy technologies like wind and solar in our desert areas or desalination projects along our coast. I particularly dislike them going out of their way to attack those like Muir by framing their criticisms from modern perspectives as though that is critically relevant looking back a century ago.