
Response to Sierra Club's Greenwashed "#ReadyFor100" Plan
The Sierra Club and other big-green organizations have a long history of making compromises and major questionable decisions that negatively impact the natural world. For example, between 2007 and 2010 they received $26 million from leaders of Chesapeake Energy, a natural gas and fracking company. These donations were hidden from the membership. During this time, the Sierra Club actively supported the idea of natural gas as a “bridge fuel” away from coal, an idea that helped propel and justify the explosion of fracking and the opening of countless new natural gas power plants across the US and across the world. Sierra Club has also worked closely with other major corporation such as Clorox to brand their products as “green.” ...