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is difficult to assign in complex situations. Put simply, the greater number of smokestacks, the harder it is to attribute blame.

As a result, 'the greater the number of smokestacks and discharge pipes through which pollutants and toxins are omitted, the lower the 'residual probability' that a culprit can be made responsible' 56Beck, 'From Industrial Society to the Risk Society: Questions of Survival, Social Structure and Ecological Enlightenment', op. cit., p. 103). . . ..The limits of science and of the bureaucracy are revealed by their inability directly to connect the polluter with specific pollutants. The more pollution generated and the more polluters, for Beck, essentially dilutes the social compact and the ability to apportion blame, responsibility and thus secure compensation. . . (Jarvey 2007)

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