Let a Thousand Gas Wells Bloom

Whereas the precautionary approach adheres to the Hippocratic dictum of ?above all, do no harm,? the proactionary adheres to the Faustian dictum of striving to overcome limits. The former demands knowledge before action. The latter creates a meshwork of technoscience by treating innovation as both social change and scientific experiment. More argues, ?Being proactive involves not only anticipating before acting, but learning by acting.? This point can be put in engineering terms. A paradox of engineering is that it transforms the world precisely by not modeling all of its complexities. If we attempt to model everything we?ll never leave the drawing board. Testing designs in the real world is an essential component of the social learning process known as progress. According to this principle, the way we developed shale gas (indeed, the way we carry out innovation more broadly) is not just how things must be?it is the way they should be.

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