shifting baseline syndrome

/SH IH1 F T IH0 NG B EY0 S L AY0 N S IH0 N D R OW0 M/

noun

1
The tendency of each generation to consider the state the environment (or by extension any other thing) was in when they grew up or first examined it to be its natural state (baseline), normalizing changes made by prior generations.

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