It's worth noting that the fossil fuel industry kills really quite a lot of people, but they tend to be a) foreigners and b) miners or oilrig-workers, so they obviously don't count.
Well, yeah, but they tend to be over a period of time, and rarely make the news, complete disasters with deaths don't hit headlines often.
Because they're fairly common on a small scale.
Even the gulf oil spill was mostly about all that oil, the deaths were mentioned a few times then forgotten.
Whereas Chernobyl was global news, Iran building a reactor is global news (and, really, I can't see what the fuss about that is, if we're allowed them, and China's allowed them, why can't Iran have them?).
People think air travel is dangerous, but road travel isn't, despite the latter being a lot more lethal.
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Because they're fairly common on a small scale.
Even the gulf oil spill was mostly about all that oil, the deaths were mentioned a few times then forgotten.
Whereas Chernobyl was global news, Iran building a reactor is global news (and, really, I can't see what the fuss about that is, if we're allowed them, and China's allowed them, why can't Iran have them?).
People think air travel is dangerous, but road travel isn't, despite the latter being a lot more lethal.