Worldwatch Reports and Papers
Human cultures, like plant and animal species, are becoming extinct at unprecedented rates. In addition, the fates of cultural and biological diversity are closely linked, reports a new study from the Worldwatch Institute.
Of the world's 6,000 languages--representing approximately the same number of cultures--half will likely disappear within a century as their speakers are driven off their territories and assimilated into dominant societies, according to Guardians of the Land: Indigenous Peoples and the Health of the Earth.
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Biological diversity—the ecosystems, species, and genes that together constitute the living world—is complex beyond our understanding, and valuable beyond our ability to measure. But it is clear that this diversity is collapsing at rates that can only be described as mind-boggling. Difficult as it is to accept, mass extinction has already begun, and the world is irrevocably committed to many further losses.
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