Globalisation lessens our world but we do have alternatives | Aeon Essays

Frantic human activity has reduced both cultural and biological diversity. Now we must protect the dwindling alternatives

The parallels between the warnings from biologists about the loss of biodiversity and from anthropologists about the loss of cultural diversity are striking. In both cases, modernity – or globalisation if you wish – is the key cause of loss. This is a dual track worth pursuing because the main causes of loss in both cases are the same. Additionally, loss of diversity, whether cultural or biological, can be understood as a single phenomenon: the world is becoming flatter, with less complexity and fewer options. These issues are not new. In Roger M Keesing’s textbook Cultural Anthropology: A…

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