Social commentator Nan Fang Shuo notes that the German scholar Ulrich Beck had written in 1986 about the global nature of risk, arguing that we are made vulnerable in an increasingly integrated world where everything is closely linked to everything else.
社會觀察家南方朔說，一九八六年，德國學者貝克便曾提出全球性風險理論，他認為當全世界越來越緊密，環環相扣，也越容易受傷害。