How Social Justice Destroyed Environmentalists

The Sierra Club is a cautionary tale.

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Protesters rally near the U.S. Capitol as part of the D.C. Climate Strike March to demand action on climate change in Washington, D.C., September 20, 2019.

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America’s oldest and most influential environmental group is collapsing because it has been shifting its focus to other left-wing causes instead of environmentalism for decades.

The Sierra Club has lost 60 percent of its 4 million members and held three rounds of employee layoffs since 2022, because, as the New York Times wrote, it offended members and volunteers who had “loved the club’s single-minded defense of the environment, by asking them to fully embrace its pivot to the left. Some even felt they were investigated by the club for failing to go along. “

Andrew Follett

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Andrew Follett

Andrew Follett conducts research analysis for a nonprofit in the Washington, D.C., area. He previously worked as a space and science reporter for the Daily Caller News Foundation.

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