The Precautionary Principle in the 20th Century: Late lessons from early warnings edited by Poul Harremoës and others, Earthscan, £17.95, ISBN 1853838934 Reviewed by Mike Holderness
TLA is a substance suspected of causing climate change, hitherto extremely rare cancers and attention deficit disorder. Following the precautionary principle, the European Union plays it safe and bans its use and importation.
The US then denounces European “scaremongering” in its appeal to the World Trade Organization, and British TLA manufacturers push their government to litigate in the European Court of Justice. They rely on the alleged harm being “not scientifically proven”.
Decades…
