Following a twitter discussion with ETC, I thought I'd throw this question to the list.
"Does the precautionary principle apply to precautions" (or to damage limitation techniques). Personally, I don't think the risk that my smoke alarm might catch fire is an argument not to deploy it, or to delay doing so whilst I conduct a risk assessment. Likewise, I don't think the precautionary principle applies to geoengineering. A -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "geoengineering" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
