Apart from the obvious risk to society from criminals, the transport of cash in security vans leads to greater air pollution in our communities.
The group notes that old and new energy sources have both promise and risk for society and nature, since natural gas and wind energy produce less pollution than coal.
As in the war on terrorism, so in the war on crime: the sharp question is how much risk a society is willing to absorb in order to preserve liberty.
But writer and consultant Tim Gill, author of No Fear: Growing Up In A Risk-Averse Society and a former government adviser, believes that bullying is too often "misdiagnosed" and children should be encouraged to stand up for themselves before parents step in.
Given past experience, any conservative politician should recognize that the problem with open immigration into a democracy, especially a democracy with a burgeoning welfare state, is the risk to civil society from an electoral transformation that not only outweighs, but threatens, any long-term economic benefit.
The General Medical Council says doctors can disclose patient information without their permission where necessary "to protect individuals or society from risk of serious harm such as... serious crime".
We applaud the recent efforts of Congress to eradicate or reduce the marriage penalty for those with higher levels of income, but these efforts have overlooked the most at-risk sector of our society: families headed by the working poor.
The criminal-justice system needs to recognize that carrying a gun illegally imposes a risk of serious harm to society.
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Colleges and universities, once among the most forward-looking and border-challenging segments of our society, now risk become static backwaters of political correctness.
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Yet the obvious conclusion from Dr Petrosino's analysis is that such programmes are not only harmful to participants, but also place everybody in society at increased risk of crime.
But by expanding the research to other cultures, including Puebloans of what is now the U.S. Southwest, the researchers believe all levels of society were at risk, regardless of diet.
"If we do too little to address the demographic challenge, we risk becoming a steadily greying society, losing vitality and verve, with our young people leaving for opportunities elsewhere, " it said in the white paper.
Regulators are aware that bank stockholders have an overriding desire to take more risk than is good for society because chronic under-pricing of government guarantees makes it profitable for banks to seek risky assets and lever them as much as possible.
So the sort of values that we would prefer to have in Egyptian society were really at risk in this transition.
It is our most vulnerable members of society who are most at risk.
Each expression of political vice, government dependency, excess spending and debt, twisting of the rule of law, class war demagoguery, rots the foundation of society and adds a layer of risk.
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But it's hard to tell exactly where society comes down on the balancing the risk-benefit scale.
Exeter University's Beats and Bass Society said it wanted to reduce the risk of hearing problems, such as tinnitus.
It's when they are unmoored from society that they are at a higher risk of hurting a child again.
The result is a conservative, risk-averse culture that holds back the innovation that society needs.
Society, Mr Oldenburg feared, was at risk of coming unstuck without these venues for spreading ideas and forming bonds.
Rather than reduce risk, organize your life, your business or your society in such a way that it benefits from randomness and the occasional Black Swan event.
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The risk of this enterprise has, already, been externalized onto society at large.
But Julia Thompson, of the National Osteoporosis Society, said falls prevention did not reduce the risk of things such as spinal fractures.
If a society doesn't have strong property rights, risk-taking declines.
Dr Allan Pacey, senior lecturer at the University of Sheffield and secretary of the British Fertility Society, said some studies had shown an increased risk associated with some assisted reproductive techniques .
The Ice Factory is on the Victorian Society's top 10 list of structures most at risk of being lost.
Professor Henry described it as a "relatively small problem", but with cocaine use accelerating in some sections of society, warned that younger people were running a high risk of heart disease.
So demonizing what may be the only source of vegetables and fruit for those with the fewest resources in society on the basis of a non-existent health risk is just sickening, metaphorically and literally.
To that end, the Society of Actuaries and the Casualty Actuarial Society hosted a call for essays, " Systemic Risk, Financial Reform, and Moving Forward from the Financial Crisis, " seeking to find solutions that would prevent a future systemic meltdown.
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