Worst-Case ScenariosHarvard University Press, 2009 M05 15 - 352 pages Nuclear bombs in suitcases, anthrax bacilli in ventilators, tsunamis and meteors, avian flu, scorchingly hot temperatures: nightmares that were once the plot of Hollywood movies are now frighteningly real possibilities. How can we steer a path between willful inaction and reckless overreaction? |
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... effects . Will you decline the operation if the doctor emphasizes that in 1 percent of cases things go quite wrong ? Probably not . Whatever you do , you are most unlikely to treat a small chance of a bad out- come as equivalent to a ...
... effects climate change is expected to have on human and animal life ; but only moral evaluation of those effects is needed to enable us to decide what , exactly , should be done in response . In offering guidance for handling hard ...
... effects , including risks to life and health , into monetary equivalents . As we shall see , cost - benefit analysis of this kind helped to spur extremely aggressive efforts to protect the ozone layer . For that problem , the United ...
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