Research
Shifting baselines
How each generation comes to take a degraded present as normal, and the dated, sourced baselines that guard against it.
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Shifting baselines and the second watershed
In 1995, Daniel Pauly named the way we quietly lose track of our place in an objective decline and become blind to impending ruin: shifting baselines. They apply to systems and tools as well as fish populations. Counterfoil’s tool catalogue…