39 Quotes by Ulrich Beck

Global conditions are far too complex to be able to imagine that they could ever be really controlled by one power.

Environmental problems, unemployment - all these issues cannot be resolved alone. They require at least European, possibly even broader, solutions.

For example, European countries have still not yet really opened up their borders to products from these countries, something that is fundamental.

Strong ties with a particular place, the fact that something flourishes there and has a special smell or taste - all this is being lost.

In their daily lives, people can see they are affected by questions that do not only relate to one location, but affect civilization as a whole.

Electronic communication makes possible what has previously been excluded: namely, active, simultaneous and reciprocal contact between individuals across all frontiers constituted by countries, religions and continents.

And it also became clear that these conditions of inequality and historical injustice have given rise to a feeling of hate in the world – a deeply felt hate that cannot easily be overcome with a few good words.

Climate risk teaches us that the nation is not the centre of the world.

But where danger lurks, the saving powers also grow.