Wolf in Sheeps Clothing

Here's an idea; lets prove something is safe instead of waiting to find out it is dangerous. This is the conservative approach. It would seem that instead of waiting for science to reveal that certain plastics are dangerous to your health that we ought not allow ourselves to be petri dishes.

Whether you are talking about saving land, or taking steps to curb global warming, or the dangers of breathing polluted air, the conservative thing to do is to take precautions. Anything else is simply gambling with our children's future. Some of the discussion this legislative session has got me wondering who are the true conservatives?

As a parent I have recently had to have the 'stranger danger' discussion with my oldest child. In reality most folks are well intended and are not bad apples. But since simply by looking on the outside we can't tell if that person is a bad apple we have to be careful with everyone and so we have fairly stringent rules meant to keep our children from harm. In other words we may not have absolute scientific evidence that the person is a danger, but we take the conservative approach that they might be.

The point to all of this. What is more radical, throwing caution to the wind and squandering our land, water and air resources assuming that the planet is not in danger, or conserving and saving our resources in case of a rainy day?