Re: (Letters, Sept. 20)

Mark WorthingB次元官网网址檚 claim that the Sierra Club of B.C. is B次元官网网址渆ntirely independentB次元官网网址� is interesting.

Greenpeace took legal action to protect its name against copycats B次元官网网址� does the Sierra Club not do the same against people trading on its earned reputation? Note that the B.C. website uses the same logo as the Canadian and U.S. websites, and that sierraclub.org states the organization has chapters in Canada and the U.S. (it is named for the Sierra Nevada mountains).

WorthingB次元官网网址檚 claim that the majority of British Columbians support his views should be investigated. A common tactic of eco-activists is to claim they speak for people theyB次元官网网址檝e never asked about their views. Another is to claim that Fletcher is a shill for right-wing governments or businesses, which if true would be like the pot calling the kettle black given the number of eco-activists who are just regurgitating someone elseB次元官网网址檚 fantasies. (For example, David Suzuki revealed on Australian TV that he had little knowledge of the temperature databases behind the climate alarmism he parrots.)

And Worthing does not understand wildlife, most of which does better in the vegetation that grows up a few years after logging. ItB次元官网网址檚 akin to the B次元官网网址渋nterfaceB次元官网网址� shrubbery that tribal people here created by felling Garry oak trees to create the meadows his friends worship, so they could harvest animals and birds living in and eating the shrubbery, and plants like Camus lily that grew in the open areas.

I doubt those early farmers had people like Worthing around B次元官网网址� theyB次元官网网址檇 offer him a choice of eating or dying by starvation.

Keith Sketchley

Saanich