The Precautionary Principle: a Critical Appraisal of Environmental Risk Assessment.

Independent ReviewVol. 7 Nbr. 2, September 2002

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The Precautionary Principle: a Critical Appraisal of Environmental Risk Assessment.

By Indur Goklany Washington D.C.: Cato Institute, 2001. Pp. 119. $17.95 paper.

In politics, special-interest groups would love to have a regulatory trump card to play in order to ensure that their priority defeats everyone else's. Radical environmentalists are no exception. They have spent years promoting their proposals at all levels of government. Today's greens think locally and act globally. They now have a creed they would like to insert into regulatory policy that would serve as their trump card: th...

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