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Re:San Francisco Is Requiring Solar Panels on All New Buildings by SilasX on Friday April 22, 2016 @05:12PM (#11552586)
It sounds like you're saying you don't know how bad X is relative to other things, and nobody can make an estimate, but it's definitely not infinity, and the possibility of X favors your preferred policy over others.

That doesn't sound like it justifies any one tradeoff over another, nor tell us how we should decide to.

Re:San Francisco Is Requiring Solar Panels on All New Buildings by specialist on Saturday April 23, 2016 @03:48AM (#11554610)
What's your best estimate for cleaning up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch?

You've heard of the precautionary principle?