In 1995, Daniel Pauly named the way we quietly lose track of our place in an objective decline and become blind to impending ruin. Shifting baselines apply to systems and tools as well as fish populations.… https://counterfoil.org/2026/10/20/shifting-baselines-and-the-second-watershed/
counterfoil.orgShifting baselines and the second watershedIn 1995, Daniel Pauly named the way we quietly lose track of our place in an objective decline and become blind to impending ruin. Shifting baselines apply to systems and tools as well as fish populations. Counterfoil’s tool catalogue and the Techno-Optimism Archive both attempt to ground us in historical baselines.
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