Decisions about technology organization

To help answer these questions I start this chapter with an examination of the various meanings of responsibility and discuss the nature of our responsibilities for things. I then examine how decisions about technology are currently made and point out the ways in which this leads to organized irresponsibility , particularly in the case of synthetic chemicals. Finally, I consider the limitations of risk assessment as a conception of responsible decision making. 

One part of organized irresponsibility is the neglect of responsibility for the public world constituted by technology when making decisions about technology. The other is the fact that rarely is anyone held to account for that neglect. 

This verdict is confirmed by practically all experts, who differ only in that their alternatives of global ecodynamics are sometimes controversial. Some problems naturally crop up here regarding the rational organization of society and creation of a technology that makes compromises between collective decisions about the... 

As discussed in Chapter 4, many different Army organizations are involved in making decisions about sites where non-stockpile chemical materiel is stored or recovered. Often, the site is a current military base or depot, where the primary decision maker is the base or depot commander. The role of the NSCMP is to develop treatment technology options and offer treatment services to decision makers at these sites. 

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