Posted by Bill Dashfield on October 18, 2020 at 16:53:28 user BillD.
In Reply to: Re: Searching TarBoard posted by John Nichols on October 17, 2020 at 13:31:11:
Sounds like C Northcote Parkinson, of Parkinson's Law. He did say "If there is a way to delay an important decision, the good bureaucracy, public or private, will find it."
This process has been, and is being, used to delay significant action on smoking, lead in petrol, herbicides and insecticides, COVID, and - most dangerously - climate change.
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