The mass media
love to publish
scary reports.
Health scares.
Environmental scares.
Most scares (over 99%)
turn out to be false.
The failure of a scare
is rarely reported.
In 1981, "scientists said"
coffee caused of
pancreatic cancers.
The same scientists
retracted their claim
in 1986.
The biased left wing
International Agency
for Research on Cancer
took until 2016
to reverse its claim
that coffee is a
possible cause
of cancer.
The harm caused by
believing false scares
was usually small.
Until the coming climate
change crisis false scare.
Vast amounts of taxpayers'
money has been wasted.
The cost-benefit test
was devised to stop
bureaucracies from
grossly overreacting
to every scare.
The cost-benefit test
is hated by bureaucrats.
It demands definitive
proof of harm --
not just wild guess
computer game
predictions.
Leftists tried to block
cost benefit analyses
with their clever 1992
"Precautionary Principle"
( Principle 15 of the
1992 Rio Declaration )
The precautionary
principle states:
“In order to protect
the environment, the
precautionary approach
shall be widely applied
by States, according to
their capabilities."
"Where there are threats
of serious or irreversible
damage, lack of full
scientific certainty
shall not be used a
s a reason for postponing
cost-effective measures
to prevent environmental
degradation”.
The precautionary principle
gives bureaucrats
the "freedom"
to only count benefits,
and ignore costs ...
or to only count
imaginary costs,
while ignoring
real benefits.
This principle reverses
the burden of proof,
by claiming whether
the science is right
or wrong, does not matter.
We must act now,
and ask questions later !
For climate change,
the precautionary principle
says:
'Our imagined costs
of the coming climate
change crisis are so high,
that everyone must act now,
and do what we say
without any questions,
because waiting would be
too dangerous.'
The 'principle' allows
climate alarmists to take
the moral high ground,
while they demand
complete control
over society.
The Green New Deal
is based entirely on
the precautionary
principle.