"You’d get 100% support for no offshore oil drilling if you wrote an article that included the other 50% of the nation’s environmentalist. We care too."
It has now been a full week since Donald J. Trump stormed to victory in the United States of America with certain corners still reeling. While the media is trying to sort out how it got everything so wrong and late night talk show hosts remain unable to dry their eyes, left-leaning advocacy groups are battening down hatches and bracing their people for a red-hatted apocalypse.
Amongst them is surfing’s largest environmental organization Surfrider.
Founded in 1984 in order to protect Malibu, the non-profit has expanded to advocate for the ocean all around the world. Its CEO, Chad Nelsen, took to LinkedIn, yesterday, to steady his charges.
“Okay. It’s time to prepare for what’s coming,” he opened before getting down to the nuts and bolts:
Sadly, we know what a second Trump administration means for our ocean and coasts, and it’s not good. It means climate denial, a fire sale of lease auctions for offshore drilling of oil and gas, attacks on national marine protected areas, and a total disregard for nature. Based on the 2016 Trump administration and Project 2025, it will likely include efforts to open our coasts to offshore drilling, weaken critical environmental laws and regulations (such as the Inflation Reduction Act, Clean Water Act, and National Environmental Policy Act), and diminish or even eliminate important federal agencies like NOAA and the EPA.
Nelsen went on to highlight Surfrider’s successes over the years and asked for more support as we head into a four year winter.
Big wave legend, father of professional surfing and onetime second best surfer in the world Ian Cairns was having none of it. Known for his right lean, the West Australian hell-raiser clapped back:
Firstly: I love the success that Surfrider has had and cannot understand why there’s a proliferation of surf related environmental groups, rather than one single super-group maximizing the message and resources.
Secondly: The premise of your article is that a Trump admin will roll back environmental protection is purely fear mingering. RFK jr is in the Admin and is a staunch environmentalist. Suggesting that conservatives don’t want clean surf just divides us rather than bringing everyone together. (Throwing the Project 2025 trope into the article is misinformation)
Lastly: You’d get 100% support for no offshore oil drilling if you wrote an article that included the other 50% of the nation’s environmentalist. We care too.
Be inclusive and kind.
A velvet hammer.
Do you have thoughts about all of this business? Will MAGA surfers stand up to Team Trump and tell them to lose the “drill, baby, drill” signs?
RFK Jr. going to save the day?
A whole new conservative conservation movement?
Who could have ever thought.
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The Surfrider Foundation does some good, but also some very disingenuous stuff. They’ve always demonized the oil industry while everything connected with our sport is oil-dependent: foam, resin, fin boxes, fins, leashes, traction pads, wetsuits, trunks, board bags, and even most surf wax. Not much comes from bees.
And what sports encourage travel like surfing? Not many.
If they followed their preaching to its logical conclusion, they’d be telling us to stay home and ride a bike to our local break. Make boards heavy to last a lifetime, preferably with a wood core. Etc., etc.
Instead they self-righteously condemn the oil companies and happily continue using their product. Hypocrites to the core, like plenty of the commenters around here.
Too much heavy lifting?
Sounds expensive for those fleeing poverty
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Yeah man, Russia.
Aberzainia ^ recent bored meetings…send wined-soaked herring and cases of Heineken. we’ll all be good!
Stoli is in freezer…on pallets. safe!
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rappers, Big Joe, Ice Cubes…keep on keeping ur blackman down…Oprah
1. Fuck Surfrider
2. Fuck Ian Cairns
3. Drill Baby Drill……
Make America Geronimo’s Again
Holy shit Donald Trump picks Fox News host Pete Hegseth as secretary of defense. You can’t make this stuff up.
I’m really glad that Trump was elected so we can now safely say the word retard. Because that is retarded.
politics here brought you back and that;s a weak take, SB. regroup!
Oh shit you’re right! Must be the crap weather here… I’m out!
see ya ’round…
That’s not a fact. But I know he won’t make picks like your side picked for
A.) Secretary of Health
B.)Secretary of Transportation
etc.
Fidiots on display! It’s ok(patting the left on the head), we’ll get things back to how We intended them to be!
With the way it’s going Trump will for sure make the black nazi guy that watches tranny porn an ambassador somewhere.
Who is that?
Mark Robinson, North Carolina governor candidate that was pro trump.
Not a chance.
venn diagram…did we save anything and that uterus thru multiple pregnancies…?
Imagine that. he selected a decorated combat 20 year war veteran who has two bronze stars and served in combat in Iraq and Afghanistan.
How crazy to select a guy who has actual experience in war zones and has lead troops in combat.
Magic Johnson, regarded as one of the greatest ever in the NBA, tried to coach the Lakers. Lasted one season I think.
National Guard part timer ain’t necessarily officer material.
Major (Officer) Pete Hegseth—infantry soldier, Ivy League scholar, veterans advocate, and military analyst. Major is commonly referred to as the XO (Executive Officer).
The “part timer” Major Hegseth served in Iraq, Afghanistan and at Guantanamo. He is also a graduate of Princeton University and Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Compared to Lloyd the career bureaucrat Austin who fucked up the Afghanistan withdrawal, the Ukraine war and the $300mil Gaza relief pier amongst many other failures; I’ll take the career solider.
Magic has never been regarded as the sharpest tool in the shed, whereas Hegseth has had four (non-fiction) books top the NYT bestsellers list.
also he has no management experience , and wants to sack Generals who he considers woke …then there’s the retribution against those military leaders who did not support Trump when he wanted to send in the military against protestors…….he is Pro Ukraine though….and does not see Palestinians as a nation, a backer of Netanyahu
“Palestinians” never had a nation. The Muslims that occupied Palestine along with Jews, Copts, Christians, Druze, etc didn’t even adopt the name “Palestinian” until 1967 as a political ploy to claim the area as their own. Better to not just swallow the media’s lies about the middle east. Do some research if you want to spout opinions.
Ha. I actually mixed him up with Tulsi. My bad.
California has only countsd 80% of the vote.
You can make this stuff up
Wait what harris/walz lost 😳I thought if you don’t vote for me your a peace of 💩 was a great marketing strategy 🤣 https://uploads.disquscdn.c…
[Snort] Four year winter. Hahahahahar
You really think he’s gonna go after 4 ?
Yes. Absolutely, because we are locking down all the important positions in Fed/State Gubment over the next decade. Prepare to enjoy Conservative lifestyle from here on out!
Founded in 1984 in order to protect Glenn Hening, Lance Carson, Tom Pratte, Dan Young, Chris Blakely & Steve Merrill surfing lifestyles whilst giving them jobs paid for by the donations of virtue signaling, millionaire Angelinos who ruined Malibu.
Surfrider’s does some good things but like all things that started off good (back in the day) in the U.S., they have become woke political shills for the D, and now Chad Nelsen disrespects over half the country that voted for Trump.
Take a look at MSNBC’s new ratings that have tanked 54% since Trump was elected
FEAR and LIES!!!
Smart business model, Chad.
Haha…. Don’t melt on us you precious little snowflake.
I’m not sure where an aged West Australian has been fits into the pronoun category of “We”when it comes to American environmentalism and politics. He must have some stock in Big Oil and coal.
Um, hes a migrant, one who filled out all the forms
Yeah, it’s a long swim from Australia so that’s the expedient way to do it.
God knows how the arabs and africans get there
If drilling for oil is so bad for the environment, what about the environmental impact and humanitarian atrocities related to extracting the minerals for so called “green energy”?
Per this conversation regarding Surfrider, which is very ocean focused, hence the use of ‘surf’ in their name, oil extraction is more likely to impact the ocean then a cobalt mine in Congo. Nice try at deflection but I don’t really see the relevance to Surfrider’s mission.
Ok Kanga , father of the Wavestorm , known capitalist who deals in money and power and sees the world as a place where he is entitled to be rich/wants more and more….just like the new US orange administration…….so no surprises , we all know the EPA will be defunded , drill drill frack frack as the USA;’s national parks are now the target……..but, I did win headbutting contest against kanga/ASP awards – Hard Rock cafe Honolulu…..LOL!
I will support the surfrider foundation if and when , they come out with a statement distancing themselves the foundation from the WSL and its carbon footprint and blatant greenwashing.
Is he even a US citizen? Such a fucking ponce.
Well at least Surfrider is focussed on the legit concerns regarding this year’s blockbuster “Trump2 -“The Trumpeting”
All the sexist, racist, homo/transphobe shit the celebrity elite/Democratic cable pussy’s and late night jerk offs have been cry-coping about for a week is a diversion. It’s all cover for what everyone should be concerned about re Donnie.. He’s a fake ass populist and while all the usual suspects keep stoking the fire of culture war, he and his merry men will pillage and sign contracts that make squillions for them and their descendants. RFK will hopefully be able to convince hairpeice that its not wise to not shit on the environment and set a focus on the greedy bastards getting no contract bids and the all the others set to profit over the next 4 years. But that won’t happen.. It is way to easy for Trump’s detractors to continue the usual attacks about all the ways he is “Literally Hitler”, meanwhile actual genocide happens and actual dictators thrive around the world. But that shit will not get ratings for the hags on the view, the after dark Jimmy’s or likes and shares on the socials for the oppression warriors.
The votes are in, the teams have switched and Red = working class now. But hey, I’m an Aussie so I really don’t give a fuck. It’s actually all quite entertaining.
Missing?
How much does the surf rider ceo make a year?
how much did elon musk make backing Donny for $130m?
does $ 28 B USD seem reasonable in 24 hrs…..ah the Grifters!
Yes it does! Too bad the other side is just interested in banging children, and cutting their wangs off. Poor people, or those that fail at business are always jealous of success. I see it,…A LOT!~
it’s easy to see a new world order getting very rich , and yep the poor people who voted for Trump…well collateral damage of enrichment!
You cant accuse him of being stupid
depends if you rate intelligence by how much ya can grift!
What is grift?
swindler….
Not what I asked braj