The Philosophy of the Precautionary Principle

In Armin Grunwald (ed.), Handbuch Technikethik. Metzler. pp. 151-154 (2013)
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Technology, in particular large-scale applications of it, offers enormous benefits. However, it also poses considerable, sometimes potentially catastrophic risks. For complex technical systems, the risks are not always reliably predictable.

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