# Sierra Club Hostile Takeover **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [March 19, 2004, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sierra-club-hostile-takeover/235256 "2004-03-19T18:49:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![monstro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@monstro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monstro)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2004, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sierra-club-hostile-takeover/235256/21 "2004-03-23T23:44:22Z")
> [@](#): > > The environment is such a low priority for me that it makes me laugh whenever I see people getting worked up the way the environmentalists do. It makes me laugh how skewed people’s priorities are. I don’t see how anyone, especially someone with children, could think the environment is a low priority. The environment includes our air and water…the very basics of survival…and yet so easy to screw up. Perhaps when you think “environment”, you think of distant rain forests or something. I think of things happening in my own background. Perhaps living in the most polluted state in the country makes you “worked up” about the environment. Not only do I want clean air and water for myself, but I’d also like to preserve some of the natural beauty that folks often take for granted. I don’t think that makes me an environmentalist. I think it makes me a decent human being. ---
**Author:** ![monstro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@monstro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monstro)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2004, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sierra-club-hostile-takeover/235256/22 "2004-03-23T23:45:34Z")
backyard, dammit. Not background. ---
**Author:** ![ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2004, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sierra-club-hostile-takeover/235256/23 "2004-03-24T02:35:02Z")
Slow realization dawns re: trends of global overpopulation and acute, accumilated ecosystem-destroying human behavior - Not in my backyard syndrome - A few more throwbacks to ignorance = “Stay the hell out you immigrant scum. We’re going to choke to death on our own filth, sittin’ on our own God-given piece of Americana. Go get your own somewhere else.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sierra-club-hostile-takeover/235256.md?page=1)