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The politics of risk society

Beck thinks we are eye-witnesses to a break within modernity. His subject is the shift from a classical industrial society to a new self-endangering civilization, which he calls risk society. Escalating risks have shaken progress and transformed politics. By risks, he means two things. First, he means the physical hazards that are destroying life radioactivity, toxins, pollutants invisible dangers that threaten us all. Bhopal and Chernobyl are just two obvious cases. They threaten us on a giant scale. They are no longer the sideeffects of progress, they are progress. Environmentalists have reacted of