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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... people's emotions are engaged , they tend to ignore the question of proba- bility altogether . They focus on the bad outcome or on the worst that might happen , without thinking enough about how unlikely 6 WORST - CASE SCENARIOS.
... questions . It is now standard practice for economists and other policy analysts to turn various effects , including risks to life and health , into monetary equivalents . As we shall see , cost - benefit analysis of this kind helped to ...
... question bears on many other potential disasters as well , such as AIDS and avian flu . We also need to separate the question of regulation from the question of subsidy . It would not make sense to adopt regulations that force the ...
... question of how to deal with such scenarios . Chapter 3 explains that notwithstanding its international influence , the Precautionary Principle is incoherent ; it condemns the very steps that it requires . To see the point , imagine if ...
... questions of all : valuation of the future . I argue on behalf of a Principle of Inter- generational Neutrality that requires existing generations to give careful consideration to the consequences of their decisions for those who will ...