While searching for something to write about for this
blog I came across this video interview of Juan Mayr, the former Environment
Minister for Columbia. What he talks about furthers our discussion we had this
last week on culture and the environment. Juan Mayr believes culture and diversity
are the most beautiful things given to us by god.
In the article Lessons
from our Ancestors we read about the traditional cultures of the Tibetan
nomads, farmers from Bali, the Inuit, and Kogi were each group had a high
understanding of their local environment. But in recent years all four of these
culture’s environments have become threatened from western ideologies to
climate change.
In the Tibetan nomad example their highly specialized
adaptation to their environment is being threatened by Chinese growth and the
influence of monoculture. Juan Mayr’s comments about how some people can’t
understand diversity and only see their own views points is a strong example of
this, but it's also seen nearly everywhere.
-Matt Spohr
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