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The term "boiling frog syndrome" is a metaphor used to describe the failure to act against a problematic situation which will increase in severity until reaching catastrophic proportions. [7] It thereby encapsulates the barely noticeable impact of slow environmental degradation that has been described by Daniel Pauly as shifting baselines. [8]
Boiling frog – Metaphor for the inability of people to properly react to significant changes that occur gradually; The Dog in the Manger – Metaphor about spitefulness; Eat the rich – Leftist slogan attributed to Jean-Jacques Rousseau; Herd mentality – Tendency to adopt group beliefs and behaviors
A list of metaphors in the English language organised alphabetically by type. A metaphor is a literary figure of speech that uses an image, story or tangible thing to represent a less tangible thing or some intangible quality or idea; e.g.,
CNN: What does the myth that a frog won’t jump out of a pot of boiling water if the temperature is increased gradually enough tell us about habituation? Cass R. Sunstein: We should take the ...
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Boiling frog – "a metaphor for so many circumstances in life when people are unwilling or unable to react effectively to crises that occur very gradually or imperceptibly," [37] used especially by Quinn to refer to creeping normality in terms of escalating environmental degradation
Like the boiling frog, we have slowly become almost immune to these alarmist messages. It’s time to take a different, less fear-dependent approach. It’s time to take a different, less fear ...
The frog in this photo was unharmed. The boiling frog is an apologue describing a frog being slowly boiled alive. The premise is that if a frog is put suddenly into boiling water, it will jump out, but if the frog is put in tepid water which is then brought to a boil slowly, it will not perceive the danger and will be cooked to death.