Sentences with phrase «uncertain precautionary principle»

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This certainly doesn't mean we should immediately remove all Internet filters: the precautionary principle suggest that caution in the face of uncertain harm is perfectly justifiable and filters remain an important tool in the repertoire of parenting interventions, especially for very young children.

An excellent example of an environmental issue involving uncertain outcomes that requires application of the precautionary principle, not cost - benefit analysis, is regulation of synthetic biology.

What you have just written David tells me that the underlying root cause of the problem is the «precautionary principle» itself: IOW the notion that a remotely possible but highly unlikely and uncertain catastrophic outcome must be given heavy weighting in the political decision - making process, simply because the posited impact is so devastating.

Yet the whole concept of the precautionary principle is that the risk of catastrophic damage justifies action the more uncertain that risk is.