It's standard human bias — a plane falling out of the sky with 200 people on it once a year is a major catastrophe we all know about within hours, but 40_000 pe

It's standard human bias — a plane falling out of the sky with 200 people on it once a year is a major catastrophe we all know about within hours, but 40_000 people dying per year in road accidents is just a statistic. Besides, driving can't be all that unsafe — I do it every day and I'm fine! Similarly here: something irrelevant happened at a nuclear power plant? PANIC! But 100_000 people died last year from coal plants dumping their waste products into the air we all breathe? Meh, who cares, how boring.