I’m a member of the Institute of Engineering and Technology mostly by accident: I took a degree course accredited by them.
Their Engineering and Technology magazine has the odd good article but is increasingly full of statism and greenery. There’s an article about how much governments of the world are going to spend “in your industry”. This is seen as “investment” and only fair, what with the banks getting all that money.
The star letter on the letters page is all about how carbon sequestration doesn’t work and includes an earnest quote from a book called “The Vanishing Face of Gaia”.
The section on “Power” has one article about government cash for going green and another about the costs of green energy containing sentences that start with things like “However, governments must not ignore…” The section on management contains a positive book review of “Fools Gold”, subtitle: “How unrestrained greed corrupted a dream, shattered global markets and unleashed a catastrophe.” Unrestrained. Unrestrained.
Even the funny article at the end, which is about the pros and cons of living in various tax havens, lists being allowed to drive at 16, breath tests being illegal and a lack of seat belt laws and speed limits as reasons not to move to the Isle of Man.
I am beginning to suspect that the IET may not be aligned with my interests.
Not aligned? The organisation responsible for the fiasco that says we cannot do any electrical work on our own properties lest we prove less capable of reading and understanding the wiring regs than an individual with nothing more than a bit of paper to claim he is better suited to it?
You could say that… The IET seems mired in an ivory tower mindset, where the concerns of “real” (or surreal in some cases) world engineering applications are of little interest when compared to academic pursuits.
Which is most of the reason why I never joined
Oh, that was them was it? Interesting… I am collecting more and more reasons to cancel my membership.
Such organisations are always horribly illiberal on immigration, too. We don’t want any foreign engineers coming and applying for “our” jobs, obviously.