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“Had we applied the precautionary principle to global warming, whole pieces of the polar ice caps would not now be crashing into the Arctic Sea.”
“As the precautious mind-set calcified, "evidence of harm disappeared as a precautionary principle trigger, and science was explicitly devalued.”
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john “Soon after Suskind’s book came out, the legal scholar Cass Sunstein, who then was at the University of Chicago, pointed out that Mr. Cheney seemed to be endorsing the same “precautionary principle” that also animated environmentalists. Sunstein wrote in his blog: “According to the Precautionary Principle, it is appropriate to respond aggressively to low-probability, high-impact events — such as climate change.”
The New York Times, Going Cheney on Climate, by Thomas L. Friedman, December 8, 2009 Dec 9, 2009