Sentences with phrase «precautionary principle much»

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In Europe, for example, we base much regulation on the «precautionary principle».

Read more than the first page of search results; once you get several pages into them, you'll find much more than the first page of most popular results — interesting slide sets, frothing mad attacks on the precautionary principle, poignant reminders that Cassandra was right.

European policy makers are much more apt to use «precautionary principles» than than their American counterparts.

He has likely given much weight on «the precautionary principle» in his judgment.

The precautionary principle is a bottomless well of anxieties, but our resources are finite — it's possible to buy so much flood insurance that you can't afford fire insurance.

In the question I would avoid explicit reference to the precautionary principle — it is too much of a pre-wrapped bias (as a crutch or as a club) to hand a candidate.

I can't make much sense of arguments such as the precautionary principle, etc., and don't want to try to puzzle them out.

So how much certainty do you actually need to trigger the precautionary principle?

The precautionary principle for GMO also indicates that we should proceed much more slowly and with much more caution.

Given that many (not all) highly regarded climatologists regard the «catastrophic» case as the most likely case and that much of the research literature, including the IPCC report devotes substantial space to quantifying the uncertainties, I tend to conclude that the current state of knowledge regards the risk of catastrophic climate change as significant and that the precautionary principle applies.

The ozone layer may not have be damaged, much less fixed, yet the role of the precautionary principle has been written out of history.

Nanoparticles may already be a part of your life you just don't know too much about - they are in underwear, socks, and other performance clothing - and another area that could have used a bit of the precautionary principle before consumer products were launched on markets.

My view is that the IPCC procedures of handling uncertainty are very much influenced by the fact that the authors have had the decision making and more specifically the precautionary principle in the back of their mind.

I have nothing much against the use of «grey literature» (or — I might as well come clean all at once — the precautionary principle, a revenue - neutral carbon tax and opposition to consumerism and overpopulation) but it's got to be solid «grey literature» — Agoumi wasn't — and you've got it to paraphrase it accurately — the IPCC didn't and still hasn't.