VitriolicViolet t1_is865l9 wrote
Reply to comment by FaeTaleDream in Ethics of Nuclear Energy in Times of Climate Change: Escaping the Collective Action Problem by CartesianClosedCat
>No one is looking at the prospect of say that Ukrainian reactor melting down from Russia sabotage the same as oil spills.
because they are not rational.
humans are fucking horrid at accurate risk assessment: more people fear planes then cars, more people fear terrorists then police, more people fear weed then alcohol, more people fear the China then the US.
in all 4 cases the one people fear is less deadly then the other but more psychologically impactful.
we have little to no ability to actually gauge risk, its why you look at statistics not peoples feelings.
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