ABSTRACT
Environmental risks are a major worry. The greater awareness of the environmental components which lead to death and disease are sources of anxiety. People look to government to protect them against environmental risk but this is sometimes difficult when the rate of scientific innovation is so rapid. Risk has come to dominate the environmental agenda since the release of nuclear radiation with the nuclear accident at Chernobyl in the former Soviet Union in 1986. Nowadays, risk is high on the climatologists agenda as the world has been experiencing historically high temperatures, which would suggest that we are now beginning a period of climatic change.
