selective reasoning or reasons of the select

We worry about air travel and yet we have a higher chance of dying in a car and yet we have no qualms in getting in a car

We worry about nuclear radiation and yet we know what exactly this pollution is doing and where it is located and it affect us directly...we have no worries in pumping and digging for carbon and put it in the atmosphere and water....hey we won't be here when the full impact of it occurs !!

It is like Tizan's "con patriotes" reasoning...why bother about trash: put it in rivers and forests...it will end up in the ocean anyways and it is somebody else's business.

Along the way it seems we forgot that somebody else is us; the future generation is us