Fear is the key to irresponsibility by Frank Furedi, an essay in Saturday's Australian.
We live in an era where problems associated with uncertainty and risk are amplified and, through our imagination, mutate swiftly into existential threats. Consequently, it is rare that unexpected natural events are treated as just that. Rather, they are swiftly dramatised and transformed into a threat to human survival. The clearest expression of this tendency is the dramatisation of weather forecasting.
The Australian surpasses, by every measure the ABC in the diversity of its opinion pieces.
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