I digress … thoughts on fish & the environment
I support both the precautionary principle and better regulation. It’s not a popular sentiment to hold on the issues I work on. In praise of the Precautionary Principle Personally, I’ve considered taking a cautionary approach sensible. It is good for public policy and for life. That mindset saved my life. Having some hard to see … Read more
If you are serious about understanding chemical regulation, you’ll read Cass Sunstein’s ‘Risk and Reason: Safety, Environment and the Law’ (link). For reasons unclear to me, Cass Sunstein is not known by many risk regulators in Europe. That is a shame. They’d learn a lot from reading him. He is more informative than a tweet. … Read more
The Commission runs a lot of public consultations. You can follow them here. Running public consultations make sense. Officials can get access to evidence that they may have missed. I’ve always liked the process. It is a means to address the Hayekian problem of knowledge. Officials can source information from hundreds of milllions of European … Read more
There is one book you need to read if you work in risk regulation: Cass Sunstein’s ‘Risk and Reason‘. If you don’t have a copy, or have it, but have not digested and noted every page, you are like a preacher who does not own a copy of the Bible, let alone read the good … Read more