Another Voice: Sudden changes

Another Voice: Sudden changes

Humans have Neolithic bodies, developed over millennium, oriented to respond quickly to immediate physical threats.  This flight/fight capacity ramps up rapidly, allowing appropriate response in the moment, slowly returning to “normal” after the crisis passes.  Therefore, we are ill prepared for slow, long term changes.  This is like the frog, that immediately hops out of boiling water, but will cook to death if put in cool water that then heats…