🌿 Environment Jun 11, 2026 · Karen L. Masters

The Extinction of Languages Is an Environmental Issue

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The Extinction of Languages Is an Environmental Issue
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Environmentalists, myself included, pay close attention to gloomy topics like species extinctions and Earth’s dwindling life-support systems. It’s not for the love of dark matters that we keep tabs on depressing metrics. Rather, it’s with the hope that they teach us something and guide us toward mitigating future losses.
On the biological front, about a million species could be taken by an extinction vortex by the end of the century. That’s also when linguists estimate about one-third of the wor

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