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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... possible responses — not only at the existence , probability , and size of the danger . In this book , I try to make progress on issues of this kind . I have three specific goals . The first is to understand people's responses to worst ...
... possible for people to achieve what we might call an " incom- pletely theorized agreement " on the appropriate course of ac- tion — that is , an agreement about what to do without any kind of agreement on the theory that underlies our ...
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