Shifting Baselines Syndrome can also be called
"Old Timer's Syndrome," as in, "you shoulda seen
it when." It's about reminding people of how things used to
look, not to depress them, but to keep them from settling for a
degraded world and to prevent us from some day living in visual
monotony.
Since publishing my OpEd on Shifting Baselines last fall in the
L.A. Times (which was reprinted in a dozen newspapers and very nicely
reworked at: http://www.actionbioscience.org/environment/olson.html
) I have received a number of e-mails from people telling me their
own personal SB Stories. If you have one to share here, please send
it to me at info@shiftingbaselines.org.
Thanks,
Randy Olson
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