Humans are sometimes slow to recognise change over time – the shifting baseline syndrome – and this presents a challenge in the understanding of how much our planet and it’s various spheres have already changed. A personalized understanding of the rate of change of the planetary boundaries during an individual’s own lifetime may increase their inclination to act in the service of sustainability.
This project requires the construction of an application (potentially mobile) that can identify the changes across key planetary boundaries that have occurred during a user’s lifetime, based on the users year of birth. It will return the data in an easily understood form (visualisation). An element of gamification is a potential enhancement whereby the user gets to predict changes that have occurred during their lifetime ahead of presentation of the authentic data.