CNN - Missing Plane Coverage

[SheilaT]

14. And so, once again one story locks out everything else.

I don't want to trivialize this, and I know that friends and relatives of those on board must be frantic because of the lack of news, but shouldn't there be some sense of proportion?

You've noted that many people are getting addicted to the coverage. I bet that's an accurate word but a scary one. Pay attention to one lost airplane. Meanwhile fracking goes on. The pipeline gets approved. There's a leak in the WIPP (Waste Isolation Pilot Plant) in New Mexico near Carlsbad that you probably haven't heard about. It's one of only three licensed storage places for radioactive waste that will take at least 10,000 years to be safe. Now it's been shut down. As long as it's shut radioactive waste will be piling up in various places. 10,000 years. That's longer than we've had civilization or written records. And we're, as a culture, producing stuff that will remain dangerous for at least that long.