FROG (Parable of the boiled) 1)4)
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A parable aimed at showing the danger of unperceived slight, but accumulative long-term transformations.
A frog put in lukewarm water very progressively heated, adapts to the slowly increasing heat, until it is too late for escape and becomes boiled.
One wonders if a number of present slow, long term and not very perceptible transformations, mainly in ecosystems, are not equivalent for humankind to the boiled frog process.
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Bertalanffy Center for the Study of Systems Science(2020).
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Bertalanffy Center for the Study of Systems Science (2020). Title of the entry. In Charles François (Ed.), International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics (2). Retrieved from www.systemspedia.org/[full/url]
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