Des Moines Memorial Drive is an 8 mile stretch of road that winds through the Highline Communities. In 1921, over 1,400 elm trees were planted to honor Washington citizens who died serving in WWI. The counsels of England, France, Italy and Belgium attended that original ceremony as well as two French Generals.
What is the most prominent science-based principle that influences international law today? The answer is undoubtedly the precautionary principle, which aims to promote only those policies whose likelihood of harm to both target and collateral populations is relatively small.
Beyond the precautionary principle. Has the time come for a 'proactionary principle', as a foil to the power and problems of precaution? The proactionary principle valorises calculated risk-taking as essential to human progress.