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.