Turning Uncertainty into Certainty – Reinventing the Precautionary Principle: ‘Giving greater weight to speculation than to knowledge. That is the nature of the politics of fear’
'You can't rule something out, so in order to survive, you have to assume that anything you can speculate about is actually the case and act accordingly...Environmentalists invented a horizon of uncertainty: the limit of 2 degrees, beyond which lay 'dangerous climate change'. But this limit was intangible. It wasn't detected by science; it was invented to meet the needs of policy-makers'
