Priti Patel

Instead of embracing change, the E.U.'s precautionary principle has held back progress.

British Politician

Implies taking steps or measures before potential problems arise.

Action Orientation

Used when there's awareness of a risk that may not be imminent or certain.

Risk Awareness

These actions are suggested, not required, showing careful judgment.

Not Mandatory

Shows effort to comply with laws or regulations to avoid negative consequences.

Legal Diligence

In legal or financial contexts, it means to reduce the risk of being responsible for harm.

Minimize Liability

Reflects that an individual or organization is acting responsibly in professional settings.

Professional Care

When describing a person’s tendency to avoid risk or harm through careful actions.

Describing Behavior

Sometimes it suggests an action taken out of fear of a possible negative outcome.

Associated with Fear

 generous that conflict that tension will be with us forever that sometimes he wants to do what it wants to do and sometimes it going to do things for us we have confusion about what we should think about a new technology right now the default position about when a new technology comes along as we people talk about the precautionary principle which

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 of a small chunk of space debris in the vicinity of the station that prompted the precautionary sheltering of the six crew members in their respective Soyuz spacecraft space debris you know as an operating astronaut it was just the enemy everything between this and

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 I and others pointed out that nature has done the same experiments zillions of times already, via cosmic ray collisions. But scientists should surely be precautionary about experiments that generate conditions without precedent in the natural world.

Precautionary