> I'm tempted to see a link between those issues which negatively affect people's lives and the rise in belief in alternatives which are less negative (but pote

> I'm tempted to see a link between those issues which negatively affect people's lives and the rise in belief in alternatives which are less negative (but potentially falsifiable). I recall reading about an effect who's name I forget, but it goes something like this: The larger and more distant a phenomenon is from the day-to-day of an individual, the less likely that individual is to accept it.