Ulrich Beck

Risk acceptability depends on whether those who carry the losses also receive the benefits. Where this is not the case, the risk will be unacceptable to those affected. If even the benefit is in dispute it is not enough to demonstrate that the ‘residual risk’ is, statistically speaking, highly improbable. A risk cannot be considered in and of itself. It is always framed by the criteria used in evaluating it, and colored by the cultural assumptions that surround it. Or to put it another way, risks are as big as they appear. This is always true. But it is even more true in the case of manufactured uncertainties.

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