What saddens me the most is shifting baseline syndrome. Coined by Daniel Pauly, it refers to the phenomenon that people regard the world they experienced as children as the normal state of things, unaware that the Edens of their youth were the ruins of their parents. And so on down the line. The creek where a girl caught tadpoles and crawfish now runs dry, but housed all manner of fish and wildlife in her father’s day, and a couple generations back gushed with steelhead that swelled the banks and water that spread outward into trickling streams following the tracks formed by the beavers who once shaped the west. It saddens me because people don’t fight for abstract concepts. They fight for what they love, and you can’t love what you never knew existed.
On Having a Daughter in the World to Come
On Having a Daughter in the World to Come
On Having a Daughter in the World to Come
What saddens me the most is shifting baseline syndrome. Coined by Daniel Pauly, it refers to the phenomenon that people regard the world they experienced as children as the normal state of things, unaware that the Edens of their youth were the ruins of their parents. And so on down the line. The creek where a girl caught tadpoles and crawfish now runs dry, but housed all manner of fish and wildlife in her father’s day, and a couple generations back gushed with steelhead that swelled the banks and water that spread outward into trickling streams following the tracks formed by the beavers who once shaped the west. It saddens me because people don’t fight for abstract concepts. They fight for what they love, and you can’t love what you never knew existed.