<![CDATA[Shifting baseline syndrome ( #SBS ) is what happens when we forget how vibrant the natural world used to be.]]>Shifting baseline syndrome ( ) 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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]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mstdn.social/users/UkeleleEric/statuses/116520207897249400https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mstdn.social/users/UkeleleEric/statuses/116520207897249400Tue, 05 May 2026 05:01:13 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Shifting baseline syndrome ( #SBS ) is what happens when we forget how vibrant the natural world used to be. on Tue, 05 May 2026 00:13:36 GMT]]>@UkeleleEric I’m in favor of eating them. What; it’s not like they’re people.
@phf @Jeroen89

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://pnw.zone/ap/users/116263446192675202/statuses/116519076908196845https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://pnw.zone/ap/users/116263446192675202/statuses/116519076908196845Tue, 05 May 2026 00:13:36 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Shifting baseline syndrome ( #SBS ) is what happens when we forget how vibrant the natural world used to be. on Mon, 04 May 2026 19:15:36 GMT]]>@headword @misty @CyReVolt good point! But this fish looks more like a 'generic' fish, posibly one of the Cypriniformes. It is just depiced in the air insted of the water. Flying Fish have elongated pectoral fins that act as wings. This fish apparently does not have such fins.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.com.pl/ap/users/116057157055409848/statuses/116517905118612679https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.com.pl/ap/users/116057157055409848/statuses/116517905118612679Mon, 04 May 2026 19:15:36 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Shifting baseline syndrome ( #SBS ) is what happens when we forget how vibrant the natural world used to be. on Mon, 04 May 2026 19:05:33 GMT]]>@jrdepriest @footils @Jeroen89 Even just ten fucking years ago!]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://void.lgbt/objects/7cf2a5c1-1d5f-419a-a23c-297ca697d35fhttps://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://void.lgbt/objects/7cf2a5c1-1d5f-419a-a23c-297ca697d35fMon, 04 May 2026 19:05:33 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Shifting baseline syndrome ( #SBS ) is what happens when we forget how vibrant the natural world used to be. on Sun, 03 May 2026 15:05:12 GMT]]>@PepperTheVixen Then in Germany I might get sued for encouraging people to commit a crime because Germany is kind of a shit country when it comes to non-politicians saying things. Politicians are of course free to say whatever the fuck they want. 🤷

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://dmv.community/users/phf/statuses/116511258190139696https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://dmv.community/users/phf/statuses/116511258190139696Sun, 03 May 2026 15:05:12 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Shifting baseline syndrome ( #SBS ) is what happens when we forget how vibrant the natural world used to be. on Sun, 03 May 2026 15:02:49 GMT]]>@phf @Jeroen89 what if it wasn't figurative?

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://meow.social/users/PepperTheVixen/statuses/116511248859485995https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://meow.social/users/PepperTheVixen/statuses/116511248859485995Sun, 03 May 2026 15:02:49 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Shifting baseline syndrome ( #SBS ) is what happens when we forget how vibrant the natural world used to be. on Sun, 03 May 2026 10:06:59 GMT]]>@nachtigal
Also applies to some basic human courtesies 😕
@Jeroen89 @skyglowberlin

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://defcon.social/users/Valent/statuses/116510085578930800https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://defcon.social/users/Valent/statuses/116510085578930800Sun, 03 May 2026 10:06:59 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Shifting baseline syndrome ( #SBS ) is what happens when we forget how vibrant the natural world used to be. on Sun, 03 May 2026 05:47:46 GMT]]>@Jeroen89 there was a great story about about a decade ago. A biologist reviewed photos from fishing expeditions in Key West over half a century. Charter boats that regularly brought in fish bigger than the tourists who caught them were, after some decades, only bringing in fish about 30cm long.

https://www.npr.org/sections/krulwich/2014/02/05/257046530/big-fish-stories-getting-littler

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://cosocial.ca/users/evan/statuses/116509066329080423https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://cosocial.ca/users/evan/statuses/116509066329080423Sun, 03 May 2026 05:47:46 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Shifting baseline syndrome ( #SBS ) is what happens when we forget how vibrant the natural world used to be. on Sat, 02 May 2026 20:08:53 GMT]]>@sarae @Jeroen89 Does explain why the tree on the left seems to age backwards.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://oldbytes.space/users/nini/statuses/116506790010299483https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://oldbytes.space/users/nini/statuses/116506790010299483Sat, 02 May 2026 20:08:53 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Shifting baseline syndrome ( #SBS ) is what happens when we forget how vibrant the natural world used to be. on Sat, 02 May 2026 19:30:10 GMT]]>@AdmiralMemo @Jeroen89 In the late 1960s, I could see fireflies in large numbers every summer in a vacant lot in my New York City neighborhood.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://ohai.social/users/Patrickoldhiker/statuses/116506637763125233https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://ohai.social/users/Patrickoldhiker/statuses/116506637763125233Sat, 02 May 2026 19:30:10 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Shifting baseline syndrome ( #SBS ) is what happens when we forget how vibrant the natural world used to be. on Sat, 02 May 2026 18:58:44 GMT]]>@Jeroen89@mastodon-belgium.be the irony of talking about climate change with ai slop graphics

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://lea.pet/notes/als9rjj1oihttps://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://lea.pet/notes/als9rjj1oiSat, 02 May 2026 18:58:44 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Shifting baseline syndrome ( #SBS ) is what happens when we forget how vibrant the natural world used to be. on Sat, 02 May 2026 18:46:10 GMT]]>@Jeroen89 I remember that butterfly I saw in 2020.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/joelvanderwerf/statuses/116506464754319474https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/joelvanderwerf/statuses/116506464754319474Sat, 02 May 2026 18:46:10 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Shifting baseline syndrome ( #SBS ) is what happens when we forget how vibrant the natural world used to be. on Sat, 02 May 2026 10:07:35 GMT]]>@Jeroen89 In addition the same for oceans. There's so much damage already due to climate heating but also deep sea mining and fossil fuel pollution!

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://troet.cafe/users/energisch_/statuses/116504425617124185https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://troet.cafe/users/energisch_/statuses/116504425617124185Sat, 02 May 2026 10:07:35 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Shifting baseline syndrome ( #SBS ) is what happens when we forget how vibrant the natural world used to be. on Sat, 02 May 2026 09:43:05 GMT]]>@Uair @Jeroen89
The area was named the fertile crescent specifically for river valleys, and what they were like over 3000 years ago. The area was already becoming dryer at that time, and about 60,000 years ago the whole Arabian peninsula was a jungle.
Also the war wasn't fought in the prime farming areas.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.org.uk/users/duckwhistle/statuses/116504329280898562https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.org.uk/users/duckwhistle/statuses/116504329280898562Sat, 02 May 2026 09:43:05 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Shifting baseline syndrome ( #SBS ) is what happens when we forget how vibrant the natural world used to be. on Sat, 02 May 2026 09:08:52 GMT]]>@Jeroen89 This phenomenon merits a more emotive name!

As for the graphic - in all too many rural places, there's barely an insect to be seen.

Happily, I came across a veritable insect hotspot this week - a small farm in Sussex that has been chemical free for a decade or more... Insects everywhere - more than I can remember seeing for a long time!

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.world/users/Nigel_Lake/statuses/116504194712943549https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.world/users/Nigel_Lake/statuses/116504194712943549Sat, 02 May 2026 09:08:52 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Shifting baseline syndrome ( #SBS ) is what happens when we forget how vibrant the natural world used to be. on Sat, 02 May 2026 08:34:53 GMT]]>@Kurt Ah yes, the ever-present myth of humans making nature more natural by (carefully?) editing it. Because nature alone is "too dumb" to do it properly. Remind you of other colonial thinking patterns? Yikes.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://dmv.community/users/phf/statuses/116504061111705665https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://dmv.community/users/phf/statuses/116504061111705665Sat, 02 May 2026 08:34:53 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Shifting baseline syndrome ( #SBS ) is what happens when we forget how vibrant the natural world used to be. on Sat, 02 May 2026 08:28:52 GMT]]>@gdjp @misty @kete @sarae you can't really. At this point your best bet is to ask the person who posted/claims to have made it and even then they might just lie to you because the people who do this and aren't full-on AIbros harassing artists are deeply ashamed of it because they know what the public opinion is 🥲

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://sunbeam.city/users/hazelnot/statuses/116504037447446418https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://sunbeam.city/users/hazelnot/statuses/116504037447446418Sat, 02 May 2026 08:28:52 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Shifting baseline syndrome ( #SBS ) is what happens when we forget how vibrant the natural world used to be. on Sat, 02 May 2026 07:43:07 GMT]]>@phf @Jeroen89 No and No. When i grew up our woods were spruce monocultures and the soil was sterile due to deer and darkness and a thick layer of needles. Storms and good huntig and farming now made it look like your 1800 picture.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://chaos.social/users/Kurt/statuses/116503857540743909https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://chaos.social/users/Kurt/statuses/116503857540743909Sat, 02 May 2026 07:43:07 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Shifting baseline syndrome ( #SBS ) is what happens when we forget how vibrant the natural world used to be. on Sat, 02 May 2026 06:38:41 GMT]]>@Jeroen89 Do this with public space, please.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://nrw.social/users/publixpace/statuses/116503604204643087https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://nrw.social/users/publixpace/statuses/116503604204643087Sat, 02 May 2026 06:38:41 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Shifting baseline syndrome ( #SBS ) is what happens when we forget how vibrant the natural world used to be. on Fri, 01 May 2026 18:58:59 GMT]]>@souldessin but the state parks aren't sufficient. The more we 'develop', the worse it becomes.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon-belgium.be/users/Jeroen89/statuses/116500852873352906https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon-belgium.be/users/Jeroen89/statuses/116500852873352906Fri, 01 May 2026 18:58:59 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Shifting baseline syndrome ( #SBS ) is what happens when we forget how vibrant the natural world used to be. on Fri, 01 May 2026 17:46:31 GMT]]>@misty @CyReVolt @martaczc

There is no doubt that it is AI-generated. If you look closely, there's a depiction of a flying fish (Exocoetidae), which is native to the tropic and subtropic oceans, and not – you know – temperate forests.

Also, the tandem dragonfly (Anax tandemicus) went extinct in the 1740's.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://lingo.lol/users/headword/statuses/116500567928086073https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://lingo.lol/users/headword/statuses/116500567928086073Fri, 01 May 2026 17:46:31 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Shifting baseline syndrome ( #SBS ) is what happens when we forget how vibrant the natural world used to be. on Fri, 01 May 2026 17:10:31 GMT]]>@Jeroen89 this is why we need large regions with untouched diversity - rainforests and wetlands, deserts & northern forests - so nature can trive. Where we must not destroy everything.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://troet.cafe/users/energisch_/statuses/116500426384736081https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://troet.cafe/users/energisch_/statuses/116500426384736081Fri, 01 May 2026 17:10:31 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Shifting baseline syndrome ( #SBS ) is what happens when we forget how vibrant the natural world used to be. on Fri, 01 May 2026 16:13:10 GMT]]>@roadskater @Jeroen89 my last long trip, I had hardly any hit

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://fuckaas.space/ap/users/115528082221336222/statuses/116500200846312891https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://fuckaas.space/ap/users/115528082221336222/statuses/116500200846312891Fri, 01 May 2026 16:13:10 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Shifting baseline syndrome ( #SBS ) is what happens when we forget how vibrant the natural world used to be. on Fri, 01 May 2026 15:59:18 GMT]]>@gdjp @misty @kete @sarae Glitches. Is that only me ? Fish in the sky, lumpy damselfly, ...a flying toilet broom ?

Idk.

Also how the grasse isn't there in 2020 : why ? If anything the removal of trees favored grasslands (because access to light).

And what about the white stuff you can see everywhere, snow remnant ? Dust ? Pollen ? >_>

If it's not AI I'm very curious about the alien thought process at work and story behind all this.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://pouet.chapril.org/users/otyugh/statuses/116500146351182298https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://pouet.chapril.org/users/otyugh/statuses/116500146351182298Fri, 01 May 2026 15:59:18 GMT