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Consequence Quotes by Anthony Giddens
- High-consequence risks form one particular segment of the generalised 'climate of risk' characteristic of late modernity - one characterised by regular shifts in knowledge-claims as…
- High-consequence risks have a distinctive quality. The more calamitous the hazards they involve, the less we have any real experience of what we risk: for…
- Abstract systems depend on trust, yet they provide none of the moral rewards which can be obtained from personalised trust, or were often available in…
- The thesis that risk assessment itself is inherently risky is nowhere better borne out than in the area of high-consequence risks.
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