The action plan cites climate change as "a key element of preventive diplomacy," aimed at preventing future violent conflicts through cooperation and dialogue.
Preventing moral certainty is as important a goal as preventing the suffering of creatures.
"Rather than preventing that, it seems they have opted for making inequalities even greater," he said.
"We have a whole new generation that is interested in climate change", he said as he predicted that putting taxes on the use of carbon would trigger a wave of clean technology which would lift people out of poverty in the developing world while preventing the global temperature from rising by more than 2C above pre-industrial levels.
Yet nearly all advertising for sanitary products encourages us to hide this chunk of our lives – three thousand days for most women – by preventing leaks that might embarrass us and everyone else; by ensuring we don't, God forbid, smell of menstrual blood; by putting menstruation behind locked doors and safely enclosed in euphemism.
Twitter has empowered feminists to monitor whether its own harassment policies are enforced – and to see whether the "uninhibited online speech" of one group is preventing the uninhibited online speech of another.
The trouble with this is that it risks provoking the very sectarian conflict Sinn Féin (alongside others, including working-class loyalists) has been successfully preventing in flashpoint areas all around Belfast in recent years.
The Council of Europe has named it "the most effective tool for preventing and combating trafficking in human beings".
In a letter sent to more than 1,000 Islamic leaders (pdf), Pickles stressed that he was proud of the way Muslims in Britain had responded to the Paris terror attacks, but added that there was "more work to do" in rooting out extremists and preventing young people being radicalised.
Who can I get advice from about preventing irritation to a scar on a two-hour run?
At Homan Square, a nondescript warehouse on the city's west side, police arrest or detain people for hours without booking or otherwise posting public notifications of their whereabouts, preventing their relatives knowing where they are.
