BSE, the E-coli virus were not confined to a single region or country, nor do they spread out to certain social groups in society exclusively. It is widely known fact that, environmental hazards have no boundaries and are universalized by water, air, food chains and winds. Therefore, the question is who is not worried about the environment? It is obvious that everyone should be concerned of the environment in which we live, whether rich or poor, developed or developing nations. This knowledge of global risk has given birth to global environmental movement to create awareness of global risk issue to discuss ways of solving them. As a result of new risks that have a feature of de-localisation with spatial and temporal in character, Beck’s risk
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The reflexive here refers to the rebound effect on society due to the unplanned production activities (industrialization) in our modern societies and forcing them to adjust and adapt. The concern of this theory is on how to handle these unplanned risk posed but not the distribution of wealth and power.
According to Wimmer and Quandt (2006), Beck described in ‘The Risk Society’ that, just like the problem of ecological risk, are not distributed according to wealth, social milieus and strata -/they affect society as a whole (Wimmer and Quandt, …show more content…
Water and food was contaminated and might have even found its way to Africa, USA or Asia which properly wouldn’t have been detected. Also, the 1984 Bhopal gas disaster in India which is a third world country resulted in so many, injuries, deaths and disabilities. About 3,787 people died and most water bodies and soil contaminated. Which buttress my point in this essay that, everyone should be concerned with the environment and not only the wealthy countries or the first world.
These pockets of industrialization in the third world as economic ventures must be the concern for all since ability to handle these unintended consequences in the form of discharging hazards not be adequately handled. An example is the frequent oil spillage worse in 2010 in Niger Delta in Nigeria due to oil exploration. The effect of the spillage devastated the ecosystem destroying food/cash crops, mangrove forest, and marine life and sometimes burning of communities. The capacity to handle these unintended economic activities are not always properly handled in the third world
The reflexive here refers to the rebound effect on society due to the unplanned production activities (industrialization) in our modern societies and forcing them to adjust and adapt. The concern of this theory is on how to handle these unplanned risk posed but not the distribution of wealth and power.
According to Wimmer and Quandt (2006), Beck described in ‘The Risk Society’ that, just like the problem of ecological risk, are not distributed according to wealth, social milieus and strata -/they affect society as a whole (Wimmer and Quandt, …show more content…
Water and food was contaminated and might have even found its way to Africa, USA or Asia which properly wouldn’t have been detected. Also, the 1984 Bhopal gas disaster in India which is a third world country resulted in so many, injuries, deaths and disabilities. About 3,787 people died and most water bodies and soil contaminated. Which buttress my point in this essay that, everyone should be concerned with the environment and not only the wealthy countries or the first world.
These pockets of industrialization in the third world as economic ventures must be the concern for all since ability to handle these unintended consequences in the form of discharging hazards not be adequately handled. An example is the frequent oil spillage worse in 2010 in Niger Delta in Nigeria due to oil exploration. The effect of the spillage devastated the ecosystem destroying food/cash crops, mangrove forest, and marine life and sometimes burning of communities. The capacity to handle these unintended economic activities are not always properly handled in the third world