The Pros And Cons Of The Boiling Frog Syndrome

During the late nineteenth century several European scientists attempted to establish, and later contradict, a hypothesis generally known as the Boiling Frog Syndrome.

Eventually, it would become a universally applied didactic anecdote more recently called “creeping normalcy” to explain the hazardous potential of subordinating, ignoring, or otherwise neglecting slow changes to the supporting environment.

And regardless whether fallacy or truism, its premise explains how diminutive changes in any environment can conceal or camouflage themselves at the risk of creating a host of deleterious events at which time they have become exacerbated or even catastrophic.

Jared Diamond cites in Discover Magazine ’s 1995 article Easter’s End a chilling