Footnotes

Footnotes:

[1] Americans are living longer but chronic diseases are increasing: http://www.rachel.org/library/getfile.cfm?ID=316. For 417 pages of details on health in the U.S., see: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hus/hus03.pdf. For even more details about the relationship of environment to health, go to http://www.protectingourhealth.org/newest.htm and look at the topics listed on the left side of the screen - asthma, etc. For case studies of the failure of the risk-based decision-making system, see the European Environment Agency's report, Late Lessons From Early Warnings, available at http://www.rachel.org/library/getfile.cfm?ID=301 (but be aware that the file is 2 megabytes in size).

[2] See Luther J. Carter, Nuclear Imperatives and Public Trust: Dealing With Radioactive Waste (Washington, D.C.: Resources for the Future, 1989).

[3] At http://www.aqmd.gov/ej/Precautionary_Principle/Precautionary_Principle.htm, see the corporate attacks on precaution by Michael de Alessi, Jim Solyst, Henry Miller, and Cindy Tuck. The speeches of de Alessi and Miller, as delivered, were even more fanciful and rabid than their handouts and slides depict.