Biodiversity and Human Cultures are being annihilated at rates far outpacing any time in previously recorded history. If things continue this way, the human race will be one of the over 100 species of animals that become extinct EVERY DAY. Yep, you read that right... One Hundred Species, every day. Biodiversity is being lost, but what’s far worse is that the ability to express this loss is vanishing. For example, 1,553 of the languages in hotspots were spoken by only 10,000 or fewer people, and 544 were spoken by fewer than 1,000 people. Ironically, the American researchers who did this study have become regarded as experts on biodiversity, although the only real experts on how to maintain biodiversity in places occupied by humans are the world’s indigenous. The logical conclusion to take from this study is that modern science, with all its sophisticated technology, is completely trumped by the thousands of years of experimentation by the world’s indigenous, although their findings have been transmitted by oral tradition and other simple means. To be fair, it isn’t so much the fault of modern science as the fault of the industrialized world, which worships power, greed, and the absurdity of exponential growth.
Posted on: Mon, 10 Mar 2014 15:28:38 +0000