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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
The premise is that if a frog is placed in boiling water, it will jump out, but if it is placed in cold water that is slowly heated, it will not perceive the danger and will be cooked to death. The story is often used as a metaphor for the inability or unwillingness of people to react to threats that occur gradually, such as climate change.
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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
Cass R. Sunstein: We should take the boiling frog tale seriously but not literally. It captures an element of human nature that has major consequences. It captures an element of human nature that ...
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.,