“When [Indigenous communities’] relationships with the land suffer, so can their languages.”
We might have created extensive nomenclature for flora and fauna while labelling, preserving and categorizing the extinct and endangered in our museums, vaults and cabinet of curiosities but we are inherently poor in occidental societies to appropriately situate to the real problems with the academic and bureaucratic ontology and epistemology, as if we are playing diplomats with ourselves (and as it is said within planetary boundaries, more-than-human, sustainable development goals etc, which to me is just jibber-jabber on environmental frontiers)
Bring back Lord Byron, John Keats, Mary Shelley, Caspar David Fredrich, William Wordsworth, Turner, Poe, Emerson, Dickinson...
https://www.noemamag.com/the-languages-lost-to-climate-change/
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