Teaching our Children - What's wrong with greed?

peteya
Thu, 16 Apr 2009 15:04:43 +0000

It seems to me that people set way to high standards of proof for prudent policy making. The question should not be ‘do we have absolutely irrefutable evidence that global warming exists and is damaging the planet and our habitat?’ because if we wait for that it may be too late. The question should be ‘do have have enough evidence of disturbing changes that could (possibly) prove to be catastrophic and that being the case that it wold be prudent to address the apparent cause?’
Policy frequently does not have the luxury of certainty. All we can do is steer our ship in an uncertain world doing the best we can to understand the world. Yes we will make mistakes and no we can’t be certain a lot of the time. So what?