Going Cheney on climate

Ex-Vice President Cheney believed in the one percent solution — aggressively responding to low-probability, high-impact events such as terrorist attacks as if they were certainties. Tom Friedman of the New York Times, applying this “precautionary principle” to climate change, counsels vigorous action.

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