Conservation Concept: Shifting Baseline Syndrome

Shifting baselines are intergenerational changes in the way we perceive the state of our world.

It’s no coincidence that your grandparents remember a different world than the one we are living in today… You’ve probably heard folks from the Silent and Baby Boomer generations say something like, “The fishing ain’t what it used to be.” And they aren’t wrong. In the U.S., we’ve been…