Word: becking
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Beck said he thinks the threat of climate change is sufficiently “irreversible” and “catastrophic” to lead to resolutions among “different parties, nations, religions, friends, and foes...
...destruction and disaster are anticipated, they can be used as a compulsion to act,” Beck said. “[Catastrophe] shakes [people] up out of their indifference, creating a public sphere of action based on community...
...Ulrich Beck, who is known for his highly influential 1986 work, Risk Society: Towards a New Modernity, was hosted by the Harvard Kennedy School’s Science, Technology and Society program. He examined the possible upsides of global risks on the scale of climate change, the current financial crisis, and terrorism...
...Beck told the packed crowd in Tsai that these three crises could lead to a positive shift in the way nations interact with each other...
...Beck defined a “cosmopolitan moment” as a moment when certain risks are so extreme that the “state of normalcy and the state of emergency overlap” and the time is ripe for transnational collaboration...