News Headline
Protecting Indigenous Languages Is Protecting Biodiversity
Source
Common Dreams
Publication Date
2020-12-01
One million animal and plant species face extinction due to human activity, according to the United Nations. Now, think about cultural production—art and literature that we have invested to address the extinction of just a handful of species (passenger pigeon included). Quite a bit actually. The extinction of one million species feels rather abstract, beyond the comprehension of human cultural production at the moment.