More broadly, they've proven Greenberg and company's original
terror management theory right all along: that people deal
with death by upholding worldviews that are larger and longer - lasting than themselves, and opposing anyone or anything that violates these «cultural anxiety - buffers.»
Tchernobyl is mainly caused by the encounter of stalinian lack of respect for security,
with modern «
management by profitability»... after decennies of pure soviet
management, the mix of
management pressure
with soviet
terror, cooked
with economic weakness lead to the drama... then soviet hiding, occidental cowardness, NGO fear mongering, crony capitalism son of Washington Consensus, finish the dirty job... and most of the dead and poor are not linked to radioactivity, but to crony capitalism and fear mongers.