Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-31035787-20130307093710/@comment-2094219-20130311194333

People fear it for the same reasons they fear aeroplane travel, because of the risk of catastrophe. Large-scale disasters worry people more than small-scale ones, largely down to media coverage. If something big happens, like an aeroplane crash, or a nuclear plant has a meltdown, you'll hear a lot about it on the news. Yet the number of car crashes per-year exceed the number of plane crashes, the number of fatalities just climb gradually and discreetly. Same thing with coal/fossil fuel power stations; they're probably killing more people and causing more harm to the environment, just over a longer period.