Good Post Jeff. Most of what passes for environmental "risks" are just phantom risks. One of the unseen high crimes and damage from the "environmental movement" is that real risks are lost in all the baloney. And bravo for pushing the concept of risk-benefit analysis.

I am still trying to figure out how we all reached adulthood without helmets, knee pads, and airbags.

It IS all about balance. We want cheap gas but we don't want to drill in our own country where we KNOW that there is oil. We want cheap clean electricity but are afraid of Nuclear power.

Nothing in life is free, there is always a price. It seems of late, that we are always paying the higher price, when it is not necessary.

Besides Caribou by all accounts tastes quite nice...