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%sierra[e89,jmc]		The case against the Sierra Club

	If I'm right, the Sierra Club is on balance a harmful
organization, and people should refrain from giving it money
and should withdraw from its activities.  The more successful
the Sierra Club is, the less prosperous and safe the world
will be 10 years from now, 50 years from now and 100 years
from now.

	Consider automobiles.  If they are to stop putting
CO2 in the air, there are just two ways of doing it.
One is to use hydrogen as fuel and the other is to use
electric cars.  Hydrogen is hard to handle and electric
cars require suitable batteries that store much more
energy per unit mass than presently available batteries.
Both the hydrogen problem and the battery problem have
plausible solutions, but the amount of money spent on
them is small and decreasing.  The reason it is decreasing
is that the Government and companies get no credit with
environmentalist organizations for spending money on
such research.  Of course, the energy for getting
hydrogen from water or for charging batteries must also
come from a source that doesn't put CO2 in the atmosphere.
The only practical such source is nuclear energy at present.

	The environmentalists have another solution.  They
are trying to nickel-and-dime the problem.  They think people
can be forced into street cars if driving is made tough
enough.  This is both immoral and unrealistic.  It's immoral,
because it would make people poorer for no good reason, and
it's unrealistic, because the more restrictions they succeed
in imposing, the greater will be the force resisting them.