All,
The Precautionary Principle is flawed and can be used inappropriately by
agenda pushers. Check out this article that explains how and why:
http://www.reason.com/news/show/30977.html. We do not want to use
speculation, emotion, conjecture, opinion and abstract reasoning to set
conservation agenda. We want to use data, science, logic, reason,
understanding, reality and fairness. We also don't want to use it to take
away the Constitutional rights of American citizens. You can't take away the
rights of folks because you "feel, think, or believe."
Mike Welker
El Paso, TX
----- Original Message -----
From: "Maiken Winter" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 04, 2009 11:48 PM
Subject: [ECOLOG-L] Risk assessment in climate change
The precautionary principle is probably THE best all-encompassing argument
to act in the face of climate change.
For those interested in further exploring this argument, and for great
short movies on the issue of risk management, please see
The Manpollo Project (http://www.manpollo.org/).
As for the argument that nature will survive - of course it will. That is
why it is wrong to say that we want to save the planet. The planet will
take care of itself - in its own time frame of 1000s and millions of
years.
The issue is about us, and our children. And about our responsibility to
take care of our home.
Maiken
