Rick Hind Quotes
No risk that is preventable is acceptable.
Rick Hind, Mathematician & Legislative Director, Greenpeace Toxics Campaign, Statement about toxic substances, Quoted in The Washington Post, March 12, 2006
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In this particular case Griffin was referring to manned space flight, but the principle is a general one. Risk can be managed and in many cases minimized, but can never be eliminated completely unless virtually all activity ceases.
Issuing a statement over the health threat of dioxin in 1983:
The bipartisan Presidential Commission had unanimously made 41 recommendations to prevent future terrorist attacks. While the Bush Administration and Congress implemented a few many of the more critical ones were left unaddressed. The commission on its final day issued a report card giving failing grades to both the White House and the Republican-controlled Congress.
