Many intensive forms of environmental exploitation and degradation not only exhaust the resources which provide local communities with their livelihood, but also undo the social structures which, for a long time, shaped cultural identity and their sense of the meaning of life and community.<\/span>\u00a0<\/b>The disappearance of a culture can be just as serious, or even more serious, than the disappearance of a species of plant or animal. The imposition of a dominant lifestyle linked to a single form of production can be just as harmful as the altering of ecosystems.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Maori, Eskimos, and San people all wearing t-shirts with corporate logos and dreaming of singing \u201cLike a Virgin\u201d on TV are examples of cultures having their DNA overwritten by the virus of imperial first world culture.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Many intensive forms of environmental exploitation and degradation not only exhaust the resources which provide local communities with their livelihood, but also undo the social structures which, for a long time, shaped cultural identity and their sense of the meaning of life and community.\u00a0The disappearance of a culture can be just as serious, or even […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[718],"class_list":["post-93059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-laudato-si"],"yoast_head":"\n
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