Then the human judgment part, just like any environment impact assessment, is, of course, still science and evidence based, but code does not substitute for human judgment there, because each environment protection agency may work on the same scientific principle — well I’m sure they work on the same scientific principle — but the norm around what’s pollution and what’s not, what’s tolerable and what’s not, what’s long term thinking… Some jurisdiction may think four years is long term thinking, and some jurisdiction thinks seven generations is long term thinking. That affects their decision on the environmental impact assessment, too.

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