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Society, Religion and Technology Project Church of Scotland Looking at the ethics of technology for a New Millennium

RISK ISSUES HOME PAGE

The SRT Project is beginning a study on Risk and its ethical and social implications, reflecting on the BSE crisis, the risks of releasing genetically modified organisms into the environment, nuclear power, and climate change. Our society is becoming ever more dependent on technological ways of doing things. How then do we handle the inevtiably scientific uncertainty about what we perceive as the more "risky" elements of what technology gives us? How do politicians and decision makers handle it? What are the ethical assumptions we are using when we assess risks? Are we now irrevocably in a "risk society"?

Edinburgh International Science Festival "What do we mean by Precaution?" SRT's Debate on Risk and the Precautionary Principle Saturday 15 April 2000, 5.15 - 7.00 p.m. Press Release and Further details

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