Emily, There has been very strong engagement with the NGO community by a wide spectrum of participants in this forum. (I've personally had formal face to face meetings with at least 10 major NGOs, including Greenpeace, NRDC, ED, Sierra Club, Oceana, Heinz Center, Conservation International and others). And I'd say that with the sole exception of the ETC group, that engagement has always been appreciated and well received.
I would strongly question your conclusion that the opposition (within the NGO community) to intervening with climate is mounting-- particularly as the evidence you're citing below is from ETC. Quite the contrary, I'd say that the more rational members of the NGO community are aware of and appreciative of the approach to the subject that those in this community have taken. And this sentiment has been growing-- often in a very public way. Several NGOs (Sierra, etc) participated in last year's Asilomar conference, and others, like Doug Parr of Greenpeace--while not openly endorsing geoengineering-- have been willing to go on stage publicly (the RS announcement) and voice their support for the way scientists have approached the material. As someone who's been around over the last 5 years here, I can assure you those things would never have happened before the last several years. Dan On Jun 21, 2:07 pm, Emily <em...@lewis-brown.net> wrote: > Hi, > > It might be useful to engage with the NGO community and connect on some > geo-eng issues as currently, the opposition to intervening with climate > change actively is mounting. > This is a risky strategy also. Either way - to intervene or not - has > its risks and moral and ethical dilemmas. > > NGO letter to the IPCC geoengineering meeting > (http://www.etcgroup.org/en/node/5267) > <http://www.etcgroup.org/en/node/5267> > > Hands Off Mother Earth : HOME campaign > (http://www.handsoffmotherearth.org) <http://www.handsoffmotherearth.org/> > > best wishes, > > Emily. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "geoengineering" group. To post to this group, send email to geoengineering@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to geoengineering+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering?hl=en.
