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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... significantly increase unemployment ; a 99 percent chance that a voucher system for education will make schools better , and a 1 percent chance that schools will get worse . If government initiatives are rejected whenever they entail a ...
... significant chance of imposing serious hardships on many nations , including not just the United States but India and China as well . Perhaps those hardships would entail significant increases in unemploy- ment and hence poverty . If ...
... significant harm . The likely result would be paralysis , because so many courses of action would be forbidden . ( Even doing nothing might be prohib- ited ; human beings who do nothing — assuming we can agree what that means — will ...
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