Abstract
Legislating for the present on the basis of predictions for the future can never be other than a dicey business. The suggestion by a British member of parliament in the nineteenth century that London would be waste-high in horse excrement by the 1950s could have been seen as a call for crippling taxes on Hansom cabs, pushing cabbies out of trade while still leaving us choking on exhaust fumes. So should we now be legislating against those exhaust fumes, in fear that by the end of the next century the world will be a flood- and storm-prone hothouse?
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