The Precautionary Principle

Disclaimer: I'm not a proponent of Agenda 21. I plan on making a video response to this soon to clarify my thoughts on the dischord being created by misleading statements about the precautionary principle and Agenda 21.

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• Agenda
• 21
• Carolyn
• Raffensperger
• Precautionary
• Principle

[pennilesscripple]

indigenous societies are often labeled 'backward' and 'ignorant' because they exercise the precautionary principle

it's much much older than the rio principle and 20th century germany

i'm curious why you posted a disclaimer, adam

although if this speech were my first encounter with the precautionary principle, i'd not be all that wild about it :P

[AdamHintz]

I posted the disclaimer so people wouldn't start thinking I was in favor of Agenda 21. I wrote the discription in haste last night. I'll be rewriting it soon. I'm also going to make a video response for this video today.

[mountain19]

think they will allow it? think again.

[joesub007]

Food can be grown in laboratories instead of farms these days.

[mountain19]

this would be why they paid our farmers here in the U.S. not to grow food? we were once the bread basket of the world. till corporations complain their food prices going down due to this farming. now we see the real reason they did not choose to feed the world instead paying farmers not to grow.

[ali0tis]

me2. although i'm called paranoid by imbecile dicks,

i prefer the term hyper-vigilance

as its most accurate & applicable

+ pre-dates this Precautionary Principle

(too many syllables).

[rspawn]

The neocons use the same term: Precautionary Principle = Ashcroft's "Paradigm of Prevention" = Neocon's "Preventative War"

"Waiting for a crime to be committed or waiting for there to be evidence of the commission of a crime, didn't seem to us to be an appropriate way to protect..." - Ashcroft

see BBC documentary "The Power of Nightmares: The Rise of the Politics of Fear", part 3: "The Shadows in the Cave".

[medicinesocks]

i've got, they say, post traumatic stress disorder. um. untreated. i mean, unmedicated. humor, empathy, compassion and i forget what else she said are all very good ways to address this disorder, more effective, for me, than trying to cure shattered nerves with drugs or "talk therapy" in some yuppie's pastel office.

pre traumatic stress prevention; sounds like a great idea to me! but to imagine corporate entities availing themselves of anything so sensible seems naive at best.

[brokendave]

And another one that keeps coming back to me: "He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby become a monster. And if thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will also gaze into thee." - Neitzsche

[mikezephyr]

globalism, globalization: the spread of neoliberal and neoclassical economic principles around the world: financial deregulation, the wholesale privatization of public institutions, and an unshakable faith in unfettered free markets. Globalization amounts to Americanization, world capitalism contingent on resource depletion, environmental degradation, mass worker exploitation and consumerism.

globalization has been around for as long as the Bourgeois ruling class have- 200-300 yrs.

[brokendave]

Yeah, I learned this by working for SEIU (Service Employees International Union). . .

I keep going back to it, but it's so pertinent: "You can't solve the problem with the kind of thinking that created it" - Albert Einstein