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The Ethics of Precaution - Uncertain Environmental Health Threats and Duties of Due Care (Hardcover)
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The Ethics of Precaution - Uncertain Environmental Health Threats and Duties of Due Care (Hardcover)
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There are thousands of substances manufactured in the United States
to which the public is routinely exposed and for which toxicity
data are limited or absent. Some insist that uncertainty about the
severity of potential harm justifies implementing precautionary
regulations, while others claim that uncertainty justifies the
absence of regulations until sufficient evidence confirms a strong
probability of severe harm. In this book, Levente Szentkiralyi
overcomes this impasse in his defense of precautionary
environmental risk regulation by shifting the focus from how to
manage uncertainty to what it is we owe each other morally. He
argues that actions that create uncertain threats wrongfully gamble
with the welfare of those who are exposed and neglect the
reciprocity that our equal moral standing demands. If we take the
moral equality and rights of others seriously, we have a duty to
exercise due care to strive to prevent putting them in possible
harm's way. The Ethics of Precaution will be of great interest to
researchers, educators, advanced students, and practitioners
working in the fields of environmental political theory, ethics of
risk, and environmental policy.
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