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Rethinking Risk and the Precautionary Principle (Paperback)
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Rethinking Risk and the Precautionary Principle (Paperback)
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When environmentalists fail to persuade us that there is an
imminent threat of environmental disaster, they typically invoke
the "precautionary principle" in order to justify their calls for
more regulation. This work challenges the claim that the
precautionary principle (PP) is an appropriate guide to public
policy decisions. The fundamental problem is that it is impossible
to prove a negative, so the PP can be used to justify any
regulation limiting emissions of any substance. Taken in its
extreme form, the PP would end civilisation. In its more practical
form, the PP is about taking a hyper-cautious approach to emissions
of substances into the environment. This means imposing very strict
controls on the licensing of new technologies and cutting back
drastically on emissions of substances into the environment.
Although not as devastating as Leggett's philosophically dubious
proposal, this more practical approach has serious drawbacks The
opening brace of papers discusses the dubious philosophical
foundations of PP, and consider the consequences of applying it in
various policy contexts relating to scientific controversies.
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