The Precautionary Principle
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The precautionary principle is one of the fundamental principles used for decision-making about the environment. There is much we don’t know about the complex interactions between the biological and physical world, or within the biological world, so the essence of the principle is that we should act with precaution because once something is lost, then we can’t change it back again.
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