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John,
How can you have such little faith?
Don't you realize that the people making these judgments have only your
best interests at heart. Implicit in the "precautionary principle" is the idea
that it is bad for you to take risks and they know which risks are the
worst ones. True believers do not question their guidance.
Of course, should prefer science, you
will have to seek elsewhere for guidance.
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, May 17, 2002 2:39 PM
Subject: Re: Precautionary Principle
Applied to Lung Cancer Risk Caused by Residential...
In a message dated
5/17/02 11:32:52 AM Pacific Daylight Time, epirad@mchsi.com writes:
. In descending
order of priority, indoor air pollutants
(excluding
radon), criteria air pollutants, hazardous air
pollutants, indoor radon, lead contamination, inactive
hazardous
waste sites, and drinking water at the tap are
the highest ranked
environmental hazards to human health.
Of course this list
does not even begin to consider the unintended consequences of regulations
relating to these "hazards." Somehow we need to be able to put ranges
of values onto the hazards so people and regulators can use common sense in
applying regulatory restrictions.
John Andrews
Knoxville,
Tennessee
(I appologize for not signing the previous post!)
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