Becks World Risk Theory: An Aid to Understanding Environmental Problems
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For example, seven biggest environmental threats, such as climate change, deforestation, pollution, loss of biodiversity, melting polar ice-caps and rising sea levels, oceanic dead zones, and explosive population growth (Zimmer's 2012) are all perceived to be caused by the global scale of modern industrialisation, and these similarly threaten all countries whether they are developed or not, putting at equal risk both the rich and the poor.... or example, the severe pollution or the massive greenhouse gases that various human activities, most especially industrial activities, released into the atmosphere have been significantly depleting the ozone layer (this cannot be noticed immediately, neither can be measured without scientific means) that in turn has resulted to sudden climate change which projections and impacts remain uncertain (Maslin 2007), despite radicalised technological progress that reflexive modernity is so proud of....