A better question would be: Who needs the Sierra Club?  Remember how they led the opposition to the Superferry and ruined a good idea that thousands of Hawaii residents could have benefited from?  The author of this editorial is a self-described "armchair environmentalist" who doesn't even like the outdoors and probably hasn't ever been anywhere near the Sierra Nevada mountains that her organization is named after.   She is only in it for the thrill of political game-playing and the smug satisfaction of telling other people how to live.