cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/46293279

From Parklane Landscapes

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.

Think about walking through a park and thinking, “This seems healthy.” But maybe 30 years ago that same park had twice as many birds, wildflowers, or insects. If you never saw that version, you don’t feel the loss - and that quiet forgetting becomes the new baseline. Over time, we start accepting degraded ecosystems as normal.

Researchers warn that this shift lowers our expectations, increases our tolerance for decline, and reduces our urgency to protect what’s left.

What helps:

Intergenerational conversations that reconnect us with what nature used to be.

Direct experiences with nature that sharpen our awareness of change.

Remembering (knowing) the past is the first step to restoring the future.

Not a sponsor, I don’t think it’s an AI graphic, and I think it has something important to say. Plus it does have an owl. We can’t save our animals if we don’t save them the spaces they need to thrive.

  • punksnotdead@slrpnk.netEnglish
    9·
    5 days ago

    These individuals and groups synthesise radical far-right politics with environmentalism;[6][7] they will typically argue that overpopulation is the primary threat to the environment and that the only solution is a complete halt to immigration or, at their most extreme, genocide against various groups and ethnicities.[8]

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecofascism

    • MissJinx@lemmy.world
      21·
      5 days ago

      first, thank you for the link I always apreciate informatiom

      Regarding this

      These individuals and groups synthesise radical far-right politics with environmentalism;[6][7] they will typically argue that overpopulation is the primary threat to the environment and that the only solution is a complete halt to immigration or, at their most extreme, genocide against various groups and ethnicities.[8] Many far-right political parties have added green politics to their platforms.[1][9][10] Through the 2010s, ecofascism has also seen increasing support,[11][12] and subsequently has seen increasing interest from researchers.[13][14]

      This is not my thought. First becaus I’m not “right wing” and second because I have nothing against immigration. I think all humas are alike. Shit. I do believe, based on varios observed exemples, that when humas are Extinct nature can grow back. am I going to kill everyone? No Do I think for the sake of the planet and other bilhoes of species humas should be extinct? Yes.

      Not gona do anything about it tho so don’t worry

      edit: wanted to add that I’m not against healthy debate if you want to talk about it ( just don’t come at me with jesus bulshit) I would love to hear your opinion (for real)