boomerist

— It came to the notice of activists in the Sierra Club, then a mountaineering cum campaigning against development group in the mountains of the Western Cordillera and took off into a major antigrowth movement, which was a brave thing to do in boomerist California at that time, except that the ‘alter native’ people were much attracted to the ideas and left for rural communes in large numbers, leaving the urban middle classes to make occasional trips to what were then voluntarily manned weekend only recycling facilities in otherwise unused parking lots.