The precautionary principle is a blunt instrument: We dont need to appoint a layer of people to say ooh, you never know! by Tracey Brown, Managing Director, Sense About Science. The precautionary principle is a blunt instrument, a 90s throwback out of place in an era of smart solutions and big data. A world of over seven billion people faces some pretty complex questions about the trade-offs involved in producing food, using resources, reducing disease and achieving the societies and environments in which we want to live. Theres a collision between short-term and long-term outcomes, narrow interests and broader ones, and between problems and opportunities … the consequences of which may be unforeseeable. Fear of the unforeseeable gives the precautionary principle influence, but was there ever such a mismatch between a challenge and a solution? Read full article...guardian.co.uk/science/political-science/2013/jul/09/precautionary-principle-blunt-instrument
Posted on: Thu, 31 Oct 2013 02:19:59 +0000
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