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NNadir

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8. A lift to the spirit of John Muir.

Reply to PufPuf23 (Original post)

Sat Jan 13, 2024, 10:32 AM

Jan 2024

In his time, he railed against the industrialization of wilderness.

It is of some depressing irony that the Sierra Club, the organization he founded has become an organized mob in favor of the industrialization of wilderness. While the media refers to the Sierra club as an "environmental" organization, I rather see it as an industrial development club.

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