Faced with the ceaseless stream of news about war, crime, and terrorism, one could easily …
The 1979 accident at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant killed no one, and probably had no effect on cancer rates, but it halted the development of nuclear power in the United States and thus will contribute to global warming from the burning fossil fuels of the foreseeable future.
— The Better Angels of Our Nature by Steven Pinker (Page 346)
This is just one example Pinker bring up of how people are more concerned about events that will likely have no impact on them, like terrorism and nuclear disasters, than they do about things that have a much higher impact, like car accidents, murders, and bee stings.