I volunteered with them when I was in my mid-20's. Back then they were very science oriented and not so much politically oriented. That shifted and I broke off my ties with that organization - they were delivering propaganda and not truth. Their co-founder, Dr. Patrick Moore, severed ties for the same reason.
Nice to see this bit of news from New Zealand:
Update on Greenpeace of New Zealand Incorporated from the Independent Charities Registration Board
The role of the independent Charities Registration Board (“the Board”) is to maintain the integrity of the Charities Register by ensuring that entities on the Charities Register qualify for registration.
The Board makes its decisions based on the facts before it applying the law including relevant case law. The Board must decline to register applications from organisations when they do not advance exclusively charitable purposes for the public benefit.
The Board has declined Greenpeace of New Zealand Incorporated’s (“Greenpeace”) application to be registered as a charity because it does not advance exclusively charitable purposes.
The Board considers that Greenpeace has an independent purpose to promote its own particular views about the environment and other issues. While Greenpeace of course has the freedom to communicate these particular views, to be registered as a charity and receive the benefits that flow from that registration, they must advance a public benefit in a way previously accepted as charitable by the courts. It is the Board’s view that they do not.
Great news - like I said, they used to be good but now they are just a for-profit advocacy group with an agenda that does not sync with reality. Their claims have zero basis in science and the observed data.
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