Globe editorial: Why humans ignore the slow-motion catastrophes all around them GlobeDebate
There’s something particularly horrifying about a plane crash. The sudden death of a large number of helpless people, travelling by what is normally the world’s safest mode of commercial transport, inspires more public empathy and recrimination than your average tragedy.
Take the air we breathe. The World Health Organization estimates that 4.2-million people die every year from the effects of air pollution. Read that again: More than four million. That’s the equivalent of dozens of jetliners plunging into the ocean, every day. The rest of the time, Mr. Trump does things like scrapping clean-energy regulations and allowing coal-fired power plants to create more smog, a sop to industry that’s expected to cause as many as 1,400 premature deaths a year by 2030. That’s about seven Max 8s.Of course, it’s not just the U.S. President choosing to quietly forfeit lives in the name of profit or expediency. Just about all humans are terrible at assessing risks that aren’t easy to visualize or relate to.
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