The Road to Wellness: Human-scale Developments for Boosting “Community Immunity” to HIV/AIDS

Abstract

Frogs are considered by environmentalists to be an important bio-indicator of the health of the environment. Being amphibians, living on land and in water, they are susceptible to toxicity and pollution in both. The disappearance of frogs in ecosystems is an early warning indicator of environmental stress, pollution and disturbance. This is because frogs (in contrast to dolphins, for example) are cold-blooded animals, and do not notice gradual and subtle environmental changes until it is too late to take life-saving action. However, a sudden change, such as when the Nile “ran with blood” in the time of Moses and Pharaoh, will cause them to mass migrate with scant respect for Pharaoh’s palaces, bed, or enslavement policies (Exodus, Ch. 7: 14–29). Peter Senge (1990: 22) claims, If you place a frog in a pot of boiling water, it will immediately try to scramble out. But if you place the frog in room temperature water, and don’t scare him, he’ll stay put… As the temperature gradually increases, the frog will become groggier and groggier, until he is unable to climb out of the pot… the frog will sit there and boil. Why? Because the frog’s internal apparatus for sensing threats to survival is geared to sudden changes in his environment, not to slow, gradual changes