Factoid/2013/08/14
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We Tend to Forget What Used to be Normal in the Ocean
- "It turns there’s a scientific term for this feeling: shifting baselines. The fisheries scientist Daniel Pauly coined it in 1995 to describe how overfishing has changed the ocean so rapidly over the past several decades that what we think of as normal and healthy—the baseline—has had to shift to keep up with reality." - excerpt from article in Time Magazine.
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