Apocalypse has become banal, a set of statistical risk parameters to everyone's existence.

Achieving control over change, in respect to lifestyle, demands an engagement with the outer social world rather than a retreat from it.

Lifestyles are routined practices, the routines incorporated into habits of dress, eating, modes of acting and favoured milieux for encountering others; but the routines followed are reflexively open to change in the light of the mobile nature of self-identity.

The thesis that risk assessment itself is inherently risky is nowhere better borne out than in the area of high-consequence risks.

The body is in some sense perennially at risk. The possibility of bodily injury is ever-present, even in the most familiar of surroundings.

To a greater or lesser degree, the project of the self becomes translated into one of the possession of desired goods and the pursuit of artificially framed styles of life. (...) Not just lifestyles, but self-actualisation is packaged and distributed according to market criteria.

The difficulties of living in a secular risk culture are compounded by the importance of lifestyle choices.