I think you have a point that the drama of evacuating a city sears nuclear disasters into our minds as uniquely damaging.
At the same time, single mining disasters have caused hundreds of deaths many times over the last century. Also, black lung killed 25,000 people in 2013 alone. The death toll from the coal industry, even in very immediate, direct terms, is still higher than nuclear.
The concept of "democracy" in this survey isn't defined well. This poll seems to more accurately reflect that across the world, people within certain democratic systems are losing faith in their own governments—not with the idea democracy.
I don’t think people who work in infrastructure currently will be surprised that Go is a better choice than Python for infra, but for those who are newer to the field of ML or only work on model development (vs deployment), it is likely surprising that a major part of production ML is best done in a language other than Python.
I've worked with hundreds of Data Scientists, many new to the industry and they all know that R and Scala are important and popular languages for ML.
Majority of Data Engineering today is using Spark, which is written in Scala and even when you write Python code using it you can't escape Java/Scala internals being exposed.
At the same time, single mining disasters have caused hundreds of deaths many times over the last century. Also, black lung killed 25,000 people in 2013 alone. The death toll from the coal industry, even in very immediate, direct terms, is still higher than nuclear.