¶ Environment Events Hierarchy (3)
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Environment Events Hierarchy:
"I decided next to start writing a list of everything I could remember as ever having happened to humanity. It rains on him. It snows on him. People smile at him and people stick their out tongues at him.
"I listed everything I could think of that could possibly happen to man. I thought this listing might go on for months or years. I therefore was amazed that in a few days I had written down everything I could recall ever having happened to anyone, either from inside himself or from outside himself. I compiled that list in 1927-28. In 1929 I showed my list to some engineering magazine editors. They were interested in it. They liked the idea of a checklist of all the things a design scientist has to cope with. Over a period of two years they made a few additions to my list and made it part of society’s knowledge. This gave me perspective upon the list as does the spider gain a perspective view of the webbing it has extruded from itself.
“I said, ‘Now that it is published, I see something about this list which is ridiculous. I see “hurricanes” next to “mosquitoes.”’ I set about immediately to rearrange the list in the order of relative severity of vital threat to the human individual of the gamut of events that impinge upon man both”
