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Perhaps you've noticed: we live in a risky world. Every day we are told about some new danger, a new disease, and new environmental hazard. The fact is that living in our high tech society means that we have increased the environmental risks we face. Many of these risks are not a matter of personal choice. Take air pollution for example. Our kids will encounter this risk if we live in a polluted city, whether we drive or not. Risks are calculated as the probability of a negative outcome from a specific activity measured across wide populations and over considerable time. The more we know about risks, the better we think we can control or avoid them. We rely on medical science to assess these risks and the media to keep us informed. And recently, the newspapers have been telling us that too much media entertainment makes children overweight, violent and poor readers.

 
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