Mitigation Strategies Quotes

We are ready for an unforeseen event that may or may not occur .

Any steps that might be taken to compensate for the negligence of today might well be too late..

The expert is out to point out all the difficulties and dangers.

Maryland is among the nation's most vulnerable states to the effects of sea level rise from climate change, and we are taking strong action to reduce carbon pollution.

The military has to think in terms of worst case scenarios. In a sense, they have to play the pessimist.

We are responsible not only for what we do but also for what we could have prevented.

There is nothing we can do to assure that this will never happen, but there is a lot we can do to assure that it happens more rarely.

Don’t ignore planning for unlikely events. Over long periods of time the highly improbable gets more probable to occur at least once.

There is no sure solution to some dangers.

Where there is a problem, the risks to the public are greater than they've ever been before.

Under the Paris agreement, every one of the 147 signatories issues what is called an 'intended nationally determined contribution' (INDC), which amounts to a promise that the nation will take certain actions to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions by a certain date.

We should not be focusing on quick solutions. The really important concern for policymakers everywhere is to prevent disasters - that is, the outlier events that matter the most.

Rather than reacting to every risk we hear and see, we should make an effort to discern which ones we can do something about.

A danger foreseen is half-avoided.

We've all learned about this disease since it was first discovered several years ago in Europe. And so I think we've learned from the European experience.

What the people want the most is to keep a balance between preventing further infections of the novel coronavirus and promoting economic activities.

In global warming, I think everyone is scratching their heads - are there technological things that can be brought to bear that can make a difference?

As we continue to learn how to live with COVID-19 until a vaccine is available, we'll also learn how to carefully balance not only the health of Iowans but the health of our economy.

Homeowners and business owners across the country agreed to pay premiums, communities agreed to adopt building codes to mitigate flood dangers, and the Federal Government agreed to provide insurance coverage to policyholders after a disaster.

No, but you've got to be here in case something does happen.

I think the hardest thing that, historically, the industry may have relied upon is that we can't control weather, we can't control air traffic control, and use that at the end of the day as an excuse. Things do happen - we know they happen. We don't exactly know when they are going to happen, but we should definitely be prepped.

When a government faces an evil that might be avoided, the usual pattern is to first debate whether or not the evil is real or imagined; then determine how evil it really is; then is it an appropriate function of government to avoid it? Then what are the alternative ways to avoid it? Then what are the costs to avoid it? And finally, is the benefit of avoiding the evil worth the cost? In those cases where it is, it is by this time too late to avoid the evil and discussions shift to ameliorating the evil.

The right response to the non-problem of global warming is to have the courage to do nothing.

Back to Microsoft days, I'm always looking for, 'OK, that's great, but what can go wrong?'

Containment doesn't work. Containment does buy time. It could slow. It very well could slow the spread. But while you're slowing the spread, you better be doing something in parallel to be prepared for when that virus breaks out.