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On Risk (Paperback)
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On Risk (Paperback)
Series: Field Notes
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Loot Price R262
Discovery Miles 2 620
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With COVID-19 comes a heightened sense of everyday risk. How should
a society manage, distribute, and conceive of it? As we cope with
the lengthening effects of the global COVID-19 pandemic,
considerations of everyday risk have been more pressing, and
inescapable. In the past, everyone engaged in some degree of risky
behaviour, from mundane realities like taking a shower or getting
into a car to purposely thrill-seeking activities like
rock-climbing or BASE jumping. Many activities that seemed
high-risk, such as flying, were claimed basically safe. But risk
was, and always has been, a fact of life. With new focus on the
risks of even leaving the safety of our homes, it's time for a
deeper consideration of risk itself. How do we manage and
distribute risks? How do we predict uncertain outcomes? If risk can
never be completely eliminated, can it perhaps be controlled? At
the heart of these questions-which govern everything from waking up
each day to the abstract mathematics of actuarial science-lie
philosophical issues of life, death, and danger. Mortality is the
event-horizon of daily risk. How should we conceive of it?
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