Re: [Paddlewise] ACA abandons conservation & advocacy!!!

From: Gary Gibbs <garygibbs_at_ameritech.net>
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 11:43:11 -0500
I think all too often being associated with a conservation group somehow
makes one "feel" good but it ends there.

Case in point:  I just participated in a Sierra Club river paddle.  I was
the only one stopping along the way picking up trash, cans, fishing floats,
shoes, styrofoam, etc.  At the takeout, I had filled a plastic trash bag
full.  No one
else had picked up anything.  Then I had to hear a lecture about preserving
the streams and how our president must be voted out, etc.  Everyone else was
along for the food, company, or exercise, but not preservation.  I bet they
would all identify themselves as conservationalists and claim to be
horrified about the new direction of the Sierra Club.  All talk.

Gary
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