Very few fallen civilisations could have been saved by greater caution about innovation; most had practised the precautionary principle. Deutsch asserts this in The Beginning of Infinity without a count of cases.

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  Very few, if any, could have been saved by greater caution about innovation. In fact, most had enthusiastically implemented the precautionary principle.

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