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There's a term for this that I can't figure out how to search for. It refers to the way people don't notice how the natural environment changes around them beca
by Kye 7y ago
There's a term for this that I can't figure out how to search for. It refers to the way people don't notice how the natural environment changes around them because it's so gradual. The context I saw it in was, I think, the way someone didn't think much of the lack of fish in a body of water other than having nostalgia for fishing with their dad as a kid.
I think the culprit in this case was overfishing, but the term was general enough to apply to any change like this. Maybe someone reading this knows the term.
- maccard 7y agoIt's called the Boiling Frog Efffect [0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_frog https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_frog
- Kye 7y agoThis was something different. More observational, less judgemental. I think it had the word environmental in it, but that didn't help build an effective search query. It was specific to the phenomenon of people not noticing a change in climate or ecology because it happens over such a long period. edit: The article links to this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creeping_normality https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creeping_normality It fits, but it doesn't ring the bell my head is looking for. Maybe that is it. Memory is weird.
- Cthulhu_ 7y agoNormalization of Deviance? It's in a document of mine somewhere right next to creeping normality.
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- AMerrit 7y agoI think you're thinking of the classic shifting baseline example. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shifting_baseline https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shifting_baseline It comes up a lot when talking about fisheries stocks, and how each generation basically resets to what is a normal amount of fish.
- scruple 7y ago"Change blindness." It was mentioned upstream in this thread [0]. [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22064787 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22064787
- elsurudo 7y agoBoiling a frog? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_frog https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_frog