Fried Light: Is the United States safe or sorry?

A longtime friend who lives in Europe e-mailed me recently while on an international aid assignment in Santa Domingo to ask if I knew about the “precautionary principle.”“It is something that is deeply rooted now in European peoples’ minds,” he wrote. “It seems that it is not very popular in the U.S.A.”Yes, I did know and even casually followed related developments, I answered.But it is a concept with very little currency here, I thought at the time. And why is that?First, for those unfamiliar with the term, the precautionary principle, although relatively simple to grasp, has been defined in many ways.

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