You know the boiling frog story; If you put a frog in boiling water, it will struggle to jump out. But if you put the frog in cold water that is slowly heated, it will not perceive the danger and be cooked to death.
Swedish historian Peter Englund wrote about the collapse of the Roman empire and asked us a question (back in 1992..). I think it’s even more relevant today: “Maybe the question about when the west will fall is irrelevant. What if we’ve already fallen?”
Our current lifestyle need 2-5 earths (check your Ecological Footprint here, mine is 2,7). And still we try to solve our problems with solutions focused solely on more consumption and economic growth.
Frogs don’t know how to read a thermometer, but what’s our excuse? Do we really want the water to start boiling before we try to jump?
And what if someone say it’s already boiling?
