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There has also been the overwhelming disaster of NGOs using white lies or misinformed advise to enact their campaigns.

In other words, NGOs have been quite ignorant about critical issues because, as chief scientist at Greenpeace Doug Parr claims, these organizations have lost their efforts in being trully scientific and are now more self-interested.

Rather than operating through science so as to be rationally and effectively practical, NGOs are now abusing the utilization of science in order to gain their own advantages.

In the beginning, as Parr indicated, there was "' a tendency among our critics to say that science is the only decision-making tool.

but political and commerical interests are using science as a cover for getting their way.

'" At the same time, NGOs have shown themselves not to be very cooperative with other groups, as the previous policy-maker for the German branch of Friends of the Earth Jens Katjek acknowledged.

" If NGOs want the best for the environment, he says, they have to learn to compromise.