nostr:npub1dl8xsc6wae6d2pejmkfsz9h2ysvrq0x3mq6j56en02p4x7j7u27s5j4tsq My guess is the Tufty Club started out as an astroturf anti-climate-change front in the 1970s/1980s, hybridized with the tobacco lobby, then—obeying the iron law of bureaucracy—went hunting for new pretexts to justify touting for donations from their sponsors.