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Cumulative Impacts: Death Knell for Cost-Benefit Analysis

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The impacts of human activities are now adding up to a damaged world- a world in which Earth's natural capacity for self-renewal has been exceeded and permanent degradation is evident. Our legal and regulatory systems were never intended to limit the accumulation of small impacts. Instead, U.S. law relies on cost-benefit analysis to justify individual impacts- a practice that is now obsolete because it is destroying the planet
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