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- The public totally discounts low-probability high-consequence events. The individual says, it's not going to be this plane, this bus, this time. — Amanda Ripley
- High-consequence risks form one particular segment of the generalised 'climate of risk' characteristic of late modernity - one characterised by regular shifts… — Anthony Giddens
- High-consequence risks have a distinctive quality. The more calamitous the hazards they involve, the less we have any real experience of what… — Anthony Giddens
- Abstract systems depend on trust, yet they provide none of the moral rewards which can be obtained from personalised trust, or were… — Anthony Giddens
- The thesis that risk assessment itself is inherently risky is nowhere better borne out than in the area of high-consequence risks. — Anthony Giddens