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Everyone who doesn't read old books or learn history* is a victim of SBS.

Shifting baseline syndrome (SBS) is a psychological and ecological concept describing how each successive generation accepts the environmental conditions of their youth as the normal baseline, failing to realize how drastically their environment has already degraded over longer periods prior to their birth.

The term Shifting Baseline syndrome was coined in 1995 by marine biologist Daniel Pauly, after he noted how fisheries scientists and fishers viewed fish populations at the start of their own careers as "normal," ignoring past depletion. It is also known in psychology as environmental generational amnesia.

Lowered Expectations: Society accepts a degraded ecosystem as a healthy status quo.

Reduced Conservation Goals: Restoration targets aim to only fix recent damage rather than recover true historical abundance.

Generational Divide: Younger people often perceive less historical destruction than older generations do.

The result is a population unable to evaluate its own decline.

* Real history that is as close to the source material as possible, not pop history on youtube or in many modern books which is politicised and contains lies by omission