On 2022-05-18 12:13 AM, BTR1701 wrote:
> So yesterday I got a solicitation from Michelle at the L.A. Chapter of the
> Sierra Club wanting money so they could fight for the environment.
>
> "We Missed Our Goal and We Still Need Your Help" it said.
>
> It was basically a pitch to meet some goal to combat 'climate change' which is
> widespread and rapidly intensifying while fossil fuel companies are drilling
> and spilling and turning the earth into Mordor. "They're destroying our
> outdoor spaces!" blared the flier.
>
> And I'm reading this and thinking, destroying outdoor spaces? What about the
> frakking Ballona Wetlands? So I did a search and I can't find any public
> position the L.A. Sierra Club has taken on the vagrant infestation in the
> federal and state protected environmentally sensitive Ballona Wetlands.
> Nothing on the irreversible harm the vagrants are doing as they poop, piss,
> cook meth, dump garbage, needles, crack pipes, and meth byproducts into this
> sensitive ecosystem with the full blessing of the government officials who are
> charged with protecting them from this kind of destruction.
>
> This is a group that throws a fit whenever normal people try and use land for
> anything productive. Try and build a shopping center or a housing development
> and this group and others like it crawl out of the woodwork with shrieking
> protests and injunctions. But a thousand derelicts descend on *the* major
> environmental preserve in L.A. County and foul it to the point of destruction
> and what do we get from them? Crickets.
>
> So I wrote back to her:
>
>
> Michelle,
>
> How are you? I hope this letter finds you well.
>
> Since you've brought up the specter of the destruction of our outdoor spaces,
> I'd like to discuss the Ballona Wetlands with you. I used to bike through the
> trails in Ballona Wetlands but can no longer do so due to the massive
> encampment of vagrants there, which not only blocks any use of the public
> trails, but creates both a physical and environmental danger.
>
> Why, with all the money and political influence your organization has, do you
> allow thousands of drug-addicted and mentally ill vagrants to dump all their
> bodily waste, needles, toxic chemicals, and garbage into the wetlands?
>
> I'll await the woke, politically correct, public relations word salad
> non-answer that questions like this usually generate. It's disgusting. As the
> premiere environmental advocacy group in the nation, you have no excuse for
> your silence on this issue, and you feel no shame.
>
> Cordially,
>
>
> So far no response from Michelle or anyone else at the Sierra Club.
>
>
Colour me shocked!

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Rhino