[jhugo]

"Risk" is incredibly broad.

The linked article seems quite focused on disaster risk, which in terms of its increase is mostly climate-related.

The perceived reduction in progress over decades may have more to do with societal changes in individual risk perception. For example, we were more comfortable with people dying in the name of progress in 1880-1950.

[jcadam]

Communist regimes well past that period were quite willing to sacrifice large numbers of people in the name of "progress." But those losses are large enough to be regarded as statistics rather than tragedies...