From Parklane Landscapes
Shifting Baseline Syndrome (SBS) is what happens when we forget how vibrant the natural world used to be. Each generation grows up with a more depleted environment and calls it “normal,” simply because it’s all they’ve ever known.
Think about walking through a park and thinking, “This seems healthy.” But maybe 30 years ago that same park had twice as many birds, wildflowers, or insects. If you never saw that version, you don’t feel the loss - and that quiet forgetting becomes the new baseline. Over time, we start accepting degraded ecosystems as normal.
Researchers warn that this shift lowers our expectations, increases our tolerance for decline, and reduces our urgency to protect what’s left.
What helps:
Intergenerational conversations that reconnect us with what nature used to be.
Direct experiences with nature that sharpen our awareness of change.
Remembering (knowing) the past is the first step to restoring the future.
Not a sponsor, I don’t think it’s an AI graphic, and I think it has something important to say. Plus it does have an owl. We can’t save our animals if we don’t save them the spaces they need to thrive.
I can’t find any evidence of this art existing prior to 2 days ago. I have found the parklane source post on Facebook, their website is worthless, and asked in the comments of their posts there if this is human generated or AI since there is no signature on it.
I’m more curious if they will respond than if it’s AI.
I searched it last night trying to verify, and the one with their logo was what came up the most. I wouldn’t be surprised if they stole it, but I tried to trace it the best I could. There are older similar graphics, but this one had the owl so was the most applicable here. Here is a fishy one with artist attribution.
I saw that one too when looking for this one. But wasn’t looking for it so ignored it.
Considering the (flying) fish in the top panel, and the starfish in the bottom panel, it seems more likely that it’s A.I. than human generated. Still an interesting and thought provoking graphic, but also a little ironic if it is A.I. generated.