ApaulD, “Why don’t we react in unbridled outrage to the devastation of the natural world taking place before our eyes?
A major reason is that we don’t realize what we’ve lost. It’s called “shifting baseline syndrome”
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#extinction
“next time you go for a hike in nature, & marvel at its beauty, take a moment to realize that you are looking at a pale, shrunken wraith of what it once was. An accumulation of studies around the world measuring the declines of species & ecosystems indicates that overall we’ve lost around 90% of nature’s profusion.”
#environment #climatechange #nature #greed #climatecrisis #extinction #ecology #ClimateDiary #nature
https://www.resilience.org/stories/2021-07-06/the-ideology-of-human-supremacy/