Oops--I sent the previous message from this forum without this explanatory
one. This has a brief history of Sierra Club policy on population, and also
an explanation of the forum's purpose and candidates' participation (or
non-participation). I will forward any messages that have candidates'
answers to questions from a member on this listserve.
Jo
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Date: Tue, Feb 20, 2001, 2:03 AM
There are 3 messages totalling 119 lines in this issue.
Topics of the day:
1. Question for candidates (2)
2. How to get a list of subscribers
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Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 13:19:33 -0700
From: Fred Elbel <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Question for candidates
To: BOD candidates 2001
The following ballot question will be on the ballot that members will
receive in March.
"WHEREAS the Sierra Club has made reducing sprawl a
national priority campaign; and
WHEREAS population growth is an important driving force
of sprawl development in most areas; and
WHEREAS stabilizing the U.S. population has been
Sierra Club policy since 1969;
THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED: The Sierra Club shall
emphasize both regional and national population stabilization
as essential components in all Sierra Club sprawl materials
and programs."
The Club has a 30-year history of population policy. Here's a refresher:
1970: "That we must find, encourage, and implement at the earliest possible
time the necessary policies, attitudes, social standards, and actions that
will, by voluntary and humane means consistent with human rights and
individual conscience, bring about the stabilization of the population
first of the United States and then of the world;"
1974: "The Earth's limited reserves of arable and habitable land, as well
as mineral and energy resources, are already being so severely strained by
the existing population that it is clear that increased population growth
threatens our survival as a civilized species."
1978: "All developed nations, including the United States, being the
countries with impact on the world environment disproportionate to their
population sizes, have an obligation both to end their population growth as
soon as feasible and to substantially reduce their consumption of this
planet's non-renewable resources."
1996: "The Sierra Club, its entities, and those speaking in its name will
take no position on immigration levels or on policies governing immigration
into the United States."
1999: "The Sierra Club advocates reductions in the population of the United
States and the world... The Board clarified that the Club favored an
eventual decline in US population, since we had already decided in 1970
that expected 1990 levels were the highest that were environmentally
sustainable in the long term, and we are now much above that level...."
The question I would like to ask you as a BOD candidate is:
How do you, as a Board candidate, view this ballot question within the
context of Club population policy?
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Candidates can find Club population policy listed on the Club's
website. More information on the ballot question can be found at
http://www.susps.org . New reports using Census Bureau statistics showing
the high correlation between population growth and sprawl are available at
http://www.SprawlCity.org .
Fred Elbel
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Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 15:59:34 -0800
From: Cal French <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Question for candidates
Fred, and others:
Those candidates who plan to participate in BOD-CANDIDATES-FORUM will
respond to questions through a moderator and their responses will be posted
on that list. The agreement and procedure provides that candidates respond
to two questions a week. Their responses are limited in length.
I do not know if any candidates are subscribed to this list you are
reading right now: BOD-CANDIDATES-OPEN-FORUM. It was designed for Club
members to discuss candidates' positions and performance and not for
candidates to respond to particular questions. There may be some problem
with rules here if candidates subscribe to this list and begin resonding to
questions here or advocate for their election.
Anyway, if you have a question for candidates, subscribe to
BOD-CANDIDATES-FORUM and send it to that list.
--Cal French, past editor of BOD-CANDIDATES-FORUM
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Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 19:45:01 -0500
From: Ed Paynter <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: How to get a list of subscribers
Subscribers,
Since the first message has been posted to this list, you might want to
know how to see who else is subscribed. Candidates may or may not be
subscribed. It's their choice.
Also note that this is a discussion list, not necessarily a question and
answer list as the BOD-CANDIDATES-FORUM list is. Any subscriber may post at
will up to the limits set for the list - 2 postings per day.
For this list, and almost all other Sierra Club lists, subscribers can get
a list of all non-CONCEALed subscribers by sending this message:
To: [log in to unmask]
Msg: REView listname (NOHeader BY NAME
where "listname" is the name of the list whose subscribers you want to see.
(Lower case letters in the command may be omitted.) Commands are not case
sensitive.
Ed Paynter
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