Bill Scott
25 September 2014

The most terrifying video you'll ever see

Posted in: Comment, Talks and Presentations

This is how this YouTube clip is introduced.  Really, I thought – has no one seen this YouTube gem which I defy anyone to watch without reaching for the valium.

No matter how often I watch the "most terrifying" YouTube video, it just seems to be a restatement of the precautionary principle – without taking into account the need to apply the precautionary principle to the application of the precautionary principle; and therein lies its problem.

The issues inherent in the other video are, by contrast, completely insurmountable and no recourse to principle of any sort will help.

 

 

 

 

Posted in: Comment, Talks and Presentations

Respond

  • (we won't publish this)

Write a response

Read next

  • Bill Scott
    16 April 2024

    The End of the World

    Did you see that Simon Stiell, executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, told an audience in London: “We have two years to save the world.”  I didn't and am grateful to Dominic Lawson in  The Times...

  • Bill Scott
    11 April 2024

    The Significance of another 1%

    Here's a rather impassioned article from the Energy & Climate Intelligence Unit [ECIU] about the significance of the UK's ~1% on-shore [*] contribution to global emissions.  It's the Tesco argument. It essentially says that although 1% is small compared with...

  • Bill Scott
    8 April 2024

    1% Giving

    Our World in Data [OWD] reports that a 2024 study in Nature Climate Change asked around 130,000 people if they’d be willing to give at least 1% of their income to tackle climate change, and that, across a 125-country sample,...