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February 26, 2012, 5:00 pm

The Wages of Eco-Angst

By DAVID ROPEIK

Anxiety: We worry. A gallery of contributors count the ways.

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Anxiety, Environment, psychology, radiation

Even today, when media warnings about the latest health or safety risk are commonplace, the incessant drumbeat of reported environmental hazards can be truly alarming, leaving us worried, like the followers of Chicken Little, that the sky really is falling. But while plenty of these threats are serious, some of the most frightening eco-bogeymen are not nearly the dangers that many presume.

Real dangers can arise when we get risk wrong.

Nuclear rad