Engineers Australia

I was idly flicking through DH's copy of this month's Engineers Australia magazine when I noticed the foreward by the Engineers Australia president, Rolfe Hartley. He was discussing how, whilst on an aeroplane of all things, he saw Al Gore's movie "An Inconvenient Truth" recently. He says that:

In my view, this movie and the Stern Report provide a comprehensive and balanced call to action on climate change.

He later goes on to say that:

As engineers, we need to take a socially responsible position and extend and improve existing technology to see how it can be utilised in the effort to cut greenhouse gas emissions. We also need to involve ourselves in the public policy debate on this issue... As well as supporting major initiatives and government reforms, as engineers we must ask ourselves how we can contribute individually.

I'm quite encouraged by this. I think engineers, somewhat unfairly, have a reputation for not caring about the environment or global warming, so to see the president promoting social and individual action, is surely a step in the right direction.