A new law specifically targeting nanotechnology could prove necessary to regulate its potential risks
"If one takes a 10 or 20 or 30 year perspective, the idea of a new law is not a radical proposition. In fact, it could be the best way to deal with what are going to be significant uncertainties and increasing complexities around this technology," said David Rejeski, director of the Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies in Washington...
~How do we know these aren't a litter of lawyers lobbying for a teat on the body politic? Traditionally, don't people need to die, become deathly ill, before new environmental laws get written in this country? Then years pass and more get sick & die before those laws get minimally enforced? What do you think the neo-cons and the neo-libs in politics today would do to mitigate the environmental dangers from nano-tech?
Posted by Cieciel at January 24, 2006 05:51 AM