Environmentalism

“Sierra Club Wrestles the Nativism in Environmentalism,” by Robert Gottlieb and Peter Dreier (Opinion, March 1), paints a false picture of a movement, and particularly the Sierra Club, as racist. In fact, the Sierra Club is motivated by concerns for the health of a nation. Population growth is caused by all people.

The authors are continuing to foist the lie that we are “elitists.” This implies that we are upper-class, “melanophobic” whites when, in fact, we are overwhelmingly middle class, represented by all races. Environmentalists will continue to be concerned by the effects of overpopulation on our finite resources, regardless of the cause by any population growth.

BERNARD LIPMAN

Fullerton