But they are not late: lessons do not begin until 10am.
(We could also call it the lead paint story. Or the asbestos story. Or the PCB story. Or the DDT story. See David Gee, Late Lessons from Early Warnings).
Comments from Rupert Read offered a link to the "Late lessons from early warnings" report (recommended for environment/science policy nerds) and Nassim Taleb's interest in the issue.
Thousands of lives could have been saved and extensive damage to ecosystems avoided if the "precautionary principle" had been applied on the basis of early warnings, say the authors of the 2013 Late Lessons from Early warnings report published on Wednesday.
This concept is known as "late lessons from early warnings" and is often associated with the precautionary principle.
Examples of lessons that can be learned from past activities are also discussed with respect to reducing current and future risks (e.g. late lessons from early warning; precautionary principle; [16 18]).
The EEA Report or the Precautionary Principle (EEA 2001) concludes with 12 late lessons.
Much of the argument in this article is taken from the report by the European Environment Agency (EEA), "Late Lessons from Early Warnings: the Precautionary Principle 1896 2000" (EEA 2001).
The idea of the 12 late lessons is to make the most of past experience to help anticipate future surprises while recognizing that history never exactly repeats itself.
Since the publication of "Late Lessons," we have explored further the second cause of false negatives, namely, the issue of bias within the health and environmental sciences.
