Not exact matches
«Convergence and harmonization means... Canada bending its regulations or simply adopting U.S. federal regulations, and I ask the question: at what
point does the narrowing of policy room to manoeuvre
fundamentally compromise democratic accountability in our
political system?»
As Daniel Sarewitz
pointed out years ago, in both climate politics and nuclear waste politics, policymakers have tended to «scientize» the issue by acting as though greater scientific certainty would solve problems that were
fundamentally political.
One of the
points I have made before on various occasions is that
fundamentally totalitarianism isn't really
political — at least not in the sense that people mean the term «
political.»
Among the
points of contention are that predictions of near - term production increases in Saudi Arabia are optimistic; that the study underemphasizes
political and security challenges to extracting oil from Iraq and, crucially, that it
fundamentally misrepresents the record of recent depletion estimates by failing to take into account that newer, horizontal wells do not deplete gradually over time: