Upwingers Fighting Downwingers
The Political Orphanage
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The Precautionary Principle and the Pro-Actionary Principle
"I think we can tuck our way out of things and sort of view humanity as an open-ended question," he says. "The downwingers are sort of religious people and environmentalists that want us to come down to earth." The upwinger side is techno optimists, kind of libertarians and probably kind of techno-crat Democrats,. That's right. I mean, do not believe in the precautionary principle as having that kind of normative standing, right? It's one of the things that is very often a sticking point at a lot of these global climate summits, right?
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