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The problem is not just that nature is being lost.
The problem is that we are forgetting what it used to be like.

This is called the Shifting Baseline Syndrome: each generation grows up in a more degraded landscape than the previous one, but perceives it as “normal” because they never knew anything different.

A child who grows up seeing few trees, few animals, polluted rivers, and depleted soils may think that this is the natural state of the world.
But it is not.

Nature was not always silence where there were once songs.
It was not always bare soil where there were once forests.
It was not always scarcity where there was once abundance.

Recovering ecological memory is urgent.
Because we cannot restore what we no longer even remember.

Regeneration begins when we stop calling loss “normal.”