On 2014-10-21, 14:08, Bruce Johnson wrote:
> Of course, continuing to use coal is going to kill a hella lot more
> people, but we have huge chunks of the population in absolute denial
> of that.

Death of a thousand cuts.  People generally have a poor intuitive grasp
of small risks, and focus on the newsworthy incidents.  Thus the fears
of flying vs driving, or the current fears of ebola in North America.

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Edward Swatschek - xxxxxx@bitslayer.net