Aggressive responses to catastrophic risks themselves impose costs and create new risks: aggressive greenhouse-gas regulation produces certain adverse effects (higher energy prices harming the poor) and a remote but nonzero risk of international instability from economic distress, while anti-terrorism responses create civil-liberties risks and can increase other terrorist risks.
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Cass SunsteinEvidence Quote
“at the less extreme end would be just energy prices jump poor people especially are going to be less able to have protection against those natural and other situations that make it necessary to use energy so the cost of responding aggressively to climate change includes risks some high some low and so too with responses to terrorism they may be civil liberties risks”
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