99. Dependence of reaction on speed of
change of size
This one is the inverse of #2, Òexcessive
attention to slow processes and underestimation of fast processesÓ. A frog may
be boiled to death in a pot, since if the heat is only turned up a little bit
at a time, it does not notice. The same effect must have happened with the
deforestation of Easter Island, which involved a slow reduction of trees, over
a long enough number of generations, that there was never a point of alarm
until it was too late.