Concern Quote by Anthony Giddens

“Risk concerns future happenings - as related to present practices - and the colonising of the future therefore opens up new settings of risk, some of which are institutionally organised.”

Anthony Giddens

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The risk climate of modernity is thus unsettling for everyone: no one escapes.

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