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Even If We Save Just One Life
Posted by Ed Thompson on 2/17, 12:48pm
Michael Brown gets right to it: If it is proper to act under the maxim that a saved life makes an act justified -- no matter the collateral damage of that act -- then there are quite a lot of very simple things that would need to be done right away.

In a follow-up, I will peruse through Bjorn Lomborg's book: The Skeptical Environmentalist for some hard numbers surrounding the cost/risk of saving one life ...

Related:
Precautionary Principle (Wikipedia)

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