He is not interested in making detailed policy choices or pragmatic compromises.
On the most practical level, those efforts involve making detailed emergency plans and testing them.
Damage to the reactors, as well as high radiation, has prevented technicians from making detailed assessments.
And another lot of meteorologists sit in the control centres, making detailed forecasts a day or two ahead to help a company manage its power load.
Governments can remove obstacles and push things in the right direction, but when they start making detailed plans they tend to come unstuck.
A former Moscow correspondent for the BBC, he took the precaution of making detailed shorthand notes of his conversations with the department's permanent secretary, Sir Richard Mottram.
The order and complexity of this new style led Poussin increasingly to rely on making detailed preparatory drawings for his pictures.
In January the BMA chairman, Dr Hamish Meldrum, publicly voiced his frustration that, despite the BMA making detailed and constructive criticisms of the bill in response to the Department of Health, Lansley did not respond directly to the doctors' criticisms.
In a horror movie, you should never purchase a dirt-cheap house or apartment without making detailed inquiries about how many previous tenants were skinned alive in the pantry.
And yet, we're still obsessed with making detailed, one-year, three-year, five-year or even ten-year plans.
Just like one can't predict the next bubble rising in boiling water, so, too, the planetary scale of climate complexity prevents making detailed, local, climate predictions.
