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To subscribe, E-mail the words . . But during the past 15 years risk assessments have come to be used throughout our society to justify all sorts of decisions that have been made for narrow purposes. Risk assessment is now routinely used to justify decisions about land use and resource allocation in the western states. Now the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is aggressively teaching other countries like Mexico and the Ukraine how to do quantitative risk assessment so that everyone will use the same language for global free trade in toxics. The whole point of risk assessment is to determine how much damage people will be permitted to do in the world.