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Article #197Re: Kyoto Treaty May Cost 22,000 Lives Per Year
From: Max Beran
Date: Sun, 04 Oct 1998 00:00
Date: Sun, 04 Oct 1998 00:00
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Richard Vialls You display a trait that is very common among the "radical concerned"; a diminished ability to distinguish a proper level of response to risks that we know exist from those that we do not know if they exist. And when I say "know", I really mean "know", not just "suspect" or "fear". For example, when we design a structure like a bridge, its basic properties are governed by a known set of risks - risks - wind, traffic load, ravages of time. We incorporate the unknowable risks within a factor of safety that is added to the basic. We rightly would not act as if the unknowable risks were knowable and incorporate them explicitly in the design. That way, it is true, no bridge would ever fall down, but on the other hand we would not have the funds to build many bridges. I trust the analogies with the subject matter of this thread are clear. Max Beran Richard Vialls wrote in message ... > >I personally believe we have to take climate change >very seriously indeed - at least while we do more to find out what is >really going on. > >As for the cost of implementing Kyoto, I believe that more money can be >found for environmental change than you suggest. ........ To say >that we can't afford environmental improvements today is to push that >cost onto tommorow - with inflation.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 104eff,6b88b5a6e9832f1e X-Google-Attributes: gid104eff,public X-Google-Thread: 110f21,6b88b5a6e9832f1e X-Google-Attributes: gid110f21,public X-Google-Thread: 10df74,6b88b5a6e9832f1e X-Google-Attributes: gid10df74,public X-Google-Thread: fb58e,6b88b5a6e9832f1e X-Google-Attributes: gidfb58e,public X-Google-Thread: 10c480,6b88b5a6e9832f1e X-Google-Attributes: gid10c480,public X-Google-Thread: fd92c,6b88b5a6e9832f1e X-Google-Attributes: gidfd92c,public X-Google-Thread: 10607c,6b88b5a6e9832f1e X-Google-Attributes: gid10607c,public X-Google-Thread: 105030,6b88b5a6e9832f1e X-Google-Attributes: gid105030,public From: "Max Beran" <max@oldboot.demon.co.uk> Subject: Re: Kyoto Treaty May Cost 22,000 Lives Per Year Date: 1998/10/04 Message-ID: <907508042.10302.0.nnrp-03.c2de9a2e@news.demon.co.uk> X-Deja-AN: 397599481 X-NNTP-Posting-Host: oldboot.demon.co.uk:194.222.154.46 References: <361278AE.77C4FD03@reason.org><KW1S8RARUzE2Ewxw@blakcat.demon.co.uk> <3613f30f.3559695@fermi.dialix.com.au> <ReNU+nA2CLF2Ew76@blakcat.demon.co.uk> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.2106.4 X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net X-Trace: news.demon.co.uk 907508042 nnrp-03:10302 NO-IDENT oldboot.demon.co.uk:194.222.154.46 Newsgroups: ca.environment,aus.environment.misc,talk.environment,sci.environment,uk.environment,alt.politics.economics,ca.politics,ca.news