Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Europe 'has failed to learn from environmental disasters'

Guardian: Europe has failed to learn the lessons from many environmental and health disasters like Chernobyl, leaded petrol and DDT insecticides, and is now ignoring warnings about bee deaths, GM food and nanotechnology, according to an 800-page report by the European Environment Agency. Thousands of lives could have been saved and extensive damage to ecosystems avoided if the "precautionary principle" had been applied on the basis of early warnings, say the authors of the 2013 Late Lessons from Early warnings...

URL: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/jan/23/europe-failed-learn-environmental-lessons
Enclosure: http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Environment/Pix/columnists/2011/4/26/1303831334670/Chernobyl---The-Aftermath-007.jpg

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