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"maff" |
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12 May 2004 04:39:46 AM |
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OT: A precautionary tale |
A precautionary tale
http://www.guardian.co.uk/analysis/story/0,3604,1214638,00.html
The EU plans new regulations for scientific risk-taking, based on the
principle of sustainable development. US big business is furious
Jeremy Rifkin
Wednesday May 12, 2004
The Guardian
Chances are that most people have never heard of "the precautionary
principle". This relatively new term is the most radical idea for
rethinking humanity's relationship to the natural world since the
18th-century European Enlightenment. Its potential impact is already
being felt within the business community and the halls of government,
with profound implications for all of us.
Jeremy Rifkin
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| User: "Elf M. Sternberg" |
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| Title: Re: OT: A precautionary tale |
12 May 2004 11:57:39 AM |
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(maff) writes:
Jeremy Rifkin
Chances are that most people have never heard of "the precautionary
principle". This relatively new term is the most radical idea for
rethinking humanity's relationship to the natural world since the
18th-century European Enlightenment.
That's right. It's a retardation of humanity's progress against
the natural world, the world which as Whitman puts us "breaks us on its
wheel." There is nothing sacred about "the natural world" with its
diseases, its earthquakes, its tornadoes, its droughts.
Countries that eschew the precautionary principle will have
terrible human-made disasters. They will also be the economic
powerhouses of the next century.
Elf
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| User: "SMChristenson" |
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| Title: Re: OT: A precautionary tale |
13 May 2004 09:35:49 AM |
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On Wed, 12 May 2004 09:57:39 -0700, Elf M. Sternberg wrote:
maff91@yahoo.com (maff) writes:
Jeremy Rifkin
Chances are that most people have never heard of "the precautionary
principle". This relatively new term is the most radical idea for
rethinking humanity's relationship to the natural world since the
18th-century European Enlightenment.
That's right. It's a retardation of humanity's progress against
the natural world, the world which as Whitman puts us "breaks us on its
wheel." There is nothing sacred about "the natural world" with its
diseases, its earthquakes, its tornadoes, its droughts.
Oh, go eat another 1/2-dozen tuna sandwiches.
We _are_ part of the natural world. Poison it and it comes back through
your mouth, lungs and skin.
That does _not_ mean we need to live in teepees. But neither can we
continue the Christian policy of scorned earth because, "what the hell,
we're going to heaven anyway".
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