Shifting baseline syndrome ( #SBS ) is what happens when we forget how vibrant the natural world used to be.
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Shifting baseline syndrome ( #SBS ) is what happens when we forget how vibrant the natural world used to be. Each generation grows up with a more depleted environment and calls it “normal,” simply because it’s all they’ve ever known.
Researchers warn that this shift lowers our expectations, increases our tolerance for decline, and reduces our urgency to protect what’s left.
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@Jeroen89
It also explains why older people like me often are very sad.I remember there used to be way more insects at night, even just 20 years ago, let alone 40.
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Shifting baseline syndrome ( #SBS ) is what happens when we forget how vibrant the natural world used to be. Each generation grows up with a more depleted environment and calls it “normal,” simply because it’s all they’ve ever known.
Researchers warn that this shift lowers our expectations, increases our tolerance for decline, and reduces our urgency to protect what’s left.
I didn't know this had a name but it resonates with me.... I remember how amazing the Milky Way used to look at night and how even in 'dark sky zones' it just isn't as vibrant
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@Jeroen89 ok, but it's pretty ironic that you're illustrating this with AI style graphics
@sarae What are some of the AI styles?
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Shifting baseline syndrome ( #SBS ) is what happens when we forget how vibrant the natural world used to be. Each generation grows up with a more depleted environment and calls it “normal,” simply because it’s all they’ve ever known.
Researchers warn that this shift lowers our expectations, increases our tolerance for decline, and reduces our urgency to protect what’s left.
@Jeroen89 Maybe there should be an indigenous person in the 1800 frame.
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Shifting baseline syndrome ( #SBS ) is what happens when we forget how vibrant the natural world used to be. Each generation grows up with a more depleted environment and calls it “normal,” simply because it’s all they’ve ever known.
Researchers warn that this shift lowers our expectations, increases our tolerance for decline, and reduces our urgency to protect what’s left.
@Jeroen89 is it ai generated picture? It contains a strange mixture of european and north american species, which may be typical nowadays, but not in 1800.
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Shifting baseline syndrome ( #SBS ) is what happens when we forget how vibrant the natural world used to be. Each generation grows up with a more depleted environment and calls it “normal,” simply because it’s all they’ve ever known.
Researchers warn that this shift lowers our expectations, increases our tolerance for decline, and reduces our urgency to protect what’s left.
@Jeroen89
Before 40 years scientists warn us for a "silent" spring, because there will be less birds and insects. Since ca. 10 years it goes more and more silent in our gardens.... Sad. -
Shifting baseline syndrome ( #SBS ) is what happens when we forget how vibrant the natural world used to be. Each generation grows up with a more depleted environment and calls it “normal,” simply because it’s all they’ve ever known.
Researchers warn that this shift lowers our expectations, increases our tolerance for decline, and reduces our urgency to protect what’s left.
RE: https://mastodon-belgium.be/@Jeroen89/116493556060663013
@Jeroen89 can't remember the last time I heard bugs on a windshield
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Shifting baseline syndrome ( #SBS ) is what happens when we forget how vibrant the natural world used to be. Each generation grows up with a more depleted environment and calls it “normal,” simply because it’s all they’ve ever known.
Researchers warn that this shift lowers our expectations, increases our tolerance for decline, and reduces our urgency to protect what’s left.
frogs in a pot
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Shifting baseline syndrome ( #SBS ) is what happens when we forget how vibrant the natural world used to be. Each generation grows up with a more depleted environment and calls it “normal,” simply because it’s all they’ve ever known.
Researchers warn that this shift lowers our expectations, increases our tolerance for decline, and reduces our urgency to protect what’s left.
@Jeroen89 at least people are working on reversal strategies
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/398447583_Recovering_what_Reversing_Shifting_Baseline_Syndrome_to_enable_nature_recovery_in_UK_National_Parks -
Shifting baseline syndrome ( #SBS ) is what happens when we forget how vibrant the natural world used to be. Each generation grows up with a more depleted environment and calls it “normal,” simply because it’s all they’ve ever known.
Researchers warn that this shift lowers our expectations, increases our tolerance for decline, and reduces our urgency to protect what’s left.
@Jeroen89 if you read some of the accounts of the original settlers and explorers of the American west, they describe wildlife so diverse and plentiful that it sounds exaggerated, hardly real or believable to us... but it was real. You could live off the land and want for nothing.
It's extremely depressing to visit the same places today and see how little is left.
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@Jeroen89 is it ai generated picture? It contains a strange mixture of european and north american species, which may be typical nowadays, but not in 1800.
@martaczc this appears to be the original source:
https://www.facebook.com/weareparklanelandscapes/posts/pfbid0Q5N7mYUxe12PJ4rnnFBqZW7LDU4gMGQTih54ofHo94MFJYtGhn2NvW62dTFc6oxUl -
Shifting baseline syndrome ( #SBS ) is what happens when we forget how vibrant the natural world used to be. Each generation grows up with a more depleted environment and calls it “normal,” simply because it’s all they’ve ever known.
Researchers warn that this shift lowers our expectations, increases our tolerance for decline, and reduces our urgency to protect what’s left.
@Jeroen89 I miss the fireflies from my childhood.
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Shifting baseline syndrome ( #SBS ) is what happens when we forget how vibrant the natural world used to be. Each generation grows up with a more depleted environment and calls it “normal,” simply because it’s all they’ve ever known.
Researchers warn that this shift lowers our expectations, increases our tolerance for decline, and reduces our urgency to protect what’s left.
@Jeroen89 I experienced a sort of wake up call to this visiting where I grew up for the first time in a decade. It was the first time I ever saw wild grasses there as hues of brown and yellow instead of green. Growing up, it was the greenest place I had ever seen. Even photos of other places didn't compare. It felt like the entire area, not just the people and the infrastructure, but the land itself was dying in front of me. It was horrifying.
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Shifting baseline syndrome ( #SBS ) is what happens when we forget how vibrant the natural world used to be. Each generation grows up with a more depleted environment and calls it “normal,” simply because it’s all they’ve ever known.
Researchers warn that this shift lowers our expectations, increases our tolerance for decline, and reduces our urgency to protect what’s left.
@Jeroen89 I looked at the image without reading the text and at first understood it as "this is what regeneration can look like", with baseline at the top and what could be in a few decades at the bottom.
Join your local bushcare / bush regeneration / land care / ecological restoration group.
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Shifting baseline syndrome ( #SBS ) is what happens when we forget how vibrant the natural world used to be. Each generation grows up with a more depleted environment and calls it “normal,” simply because it’s all they’ve ever known.
Researchers warn that this shift lowers our expectations, increases our tolerance for decline, and reduces our urgency to protect what’s left.
@Jeroen89
The ever lowering baseline. I remember when thousands and thousands of salmon came up my river to spawn in the fall. Today's people get excited by a couple hundred fish. The meadows in my home creek watershed were 98% CA native. Then in early 2020 some do gooders weed whacked 5 miles of the verge of the rd. Required by the state for a pot growing permit. They introduced 5 highly invasive species because they came with seed contaminated weedwhackers. Then they weed whacked again the next year and spread inavasive seeds far and wide, as a requirement for their stupid pot grow, when all the newly introduced invasives were setting seeds. It's unbelievable how fast those introduced invasive annual grasses, moved from the rd to ridge tops covering average, and have wiped out the incredible plant diversity that coexisted in our meadows for thousands of years. . The human new comers have no idea of the tragedy that has unfolded because of their stupid weed whacking . The road to hell is paved with good intentions. And our fire hazard has increased 1000 fold with these annual grasses that build up thick mats of bone dry tinder by May ,and our lovely diverse low growing , fire resilient , native meadows are almost gone. It's unbelievable how quickly the destruction occured. And the next generation will know that man made out of balance mess . . as normal. -
Shifting baseline syndrome ( #SBS ) is what happens when we forget how vibrant the natural world used to be. Each generation grows up with a more depleted environment and calls it “normal,” simply because it’s all they’ve ever known.
Researchers warn that this shift lowers our expectations, increases our tolerance for decline, and reduces our urgency to protect what’s left.
I've been driving interstate ( #australia) for the past 40 years...
... Early on, each time I stopped for gas, I had to scrape thick mush of dead insects off the car.
I used to have fly screen mesh on the car grill so insects wouldn't clog the radiator.
These days I travel less often, but there are only about 10-25% as many insects
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@martaczc this appears to be the original source:
https://www.facebook.com/weareparklanelandscapes/posts/pfbid0Q5N7mYUxe12PJ4rnnFBqZW7LDU4gMGQTih54ofHo94MFJYtGhn2NvW62dTFc6oxUl -
@sarae What are some of the AI styles?
@kete @sarae This specific look of cartoon illustration is very common among AI image generators. I think it's useful to be able to recognize because you really do start seeing it all over the place.
(Someone else in the mentions pointed out that this has an odd mix of North American and European animals, which isn't what you'd expect to see in an informative illustration created by an actual human.)
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Shifting baseline syndrome ( #SBS ) is what happens when we forget how vibrant the natural world used to be. Each generation grows up with a more depleted environment and calls it “normal,” simply because it’s all they’ve ever known.
Researchers warn that this shift lowers our expectations, increases our tolerance for decline, and reduces our urgency to protect what’s left.
@Jeroen89 I’m old enough to remember front number plates being covered in dead insects after a moderately short drive. Now I can drive thousands of miles and perhaps get just a couple of the poor unfortunates on my car. That’s an apocalyptic decrease!
