Boiling frogs and global warming

Have you read the story of the boiling frog?

If a frog is put it into boiling water, it would simply jump out. But if you put it in normal water and then boil it slowly, the frog would not realise the danger and will be cooked.

Prerna called her mother today and asked her if it was hot back home. I thought of the boiling frog then. The weather has changed so much since we were kids. We would not need ACs during our childhood. We could do stuff during the summer holidays and not just sit in ACs. March would not be this hot!

The thing with global warming is that the temperatures creep up slowly. Every year being warmer than the last. But not warm enough, sharp enough. It is a gradual change.

Each year brings with it the same disasters, all slightly more devastating. We have all just gotten used to it.

We are all frogs sitting the slowly warming bowl of water.