"Three million souls can be starved and murdered in the Congo, and our Argus-eyed media scarcely blink. When a princess dies in a car accident, however, a quarter of the earths population falls prostrate with grief. Perhaps we are unable to feel what we must feel in order to change our world."

That was in the book im reading right now.
Granted both situations are tragedies, it is a good point.
Think he's right?