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The cost of ignoring the warning signs - EEA publishes ‘Late Lessons from Early Warnings, volume II’

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Press Release Published 21 Jan 2013 Last modified 02 Sep 2016

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New technologies have sometimes had very harmful effects, but in many cases the early warning signs have been suppressed or ignored. The second volume of Late Lessons from Early Warnings investigates specific cases where danger signals have gone unheeded, in some cases leading to deaths, illness and environmental destruction.