Personally I don't give a flying fugg about Chouinard or his politics. I do care about keeping public lands public, and keeping the fraction of them that are roadless, roadless.
If any of you geniuses can name an organization that more effectively advocates toward those ends, I'm all ears.
But you probably should. Yvon and Patagonia made a big deal out of sponsoring Buffalo Fields campaign when the state of Montana started the annual bison hunt outside Yellowstone. The biology was sound and the hunt helped bring in more funds for state coffers but Yvon and co. would have none of it. They had their paid goons disrupt activities of law abiding citizens partaking in legal hunts.
So, yes, politics do matter.
“Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.” ― G. Orwell
"Why can't men kill big game with the same cartridges women and kids use?" _Eileen Clarke
"Unjust authority confers no obligation of obedience." - Alexander Hamilton
