Wade Davis on "The Wayfinders"

Anthropologist Wade Davis warns that half of the world's seven thousand languages are set to disappear within a generation and explains why this threatens our survival. His book "The Wayfinders" is based on his Massey Lectures.

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[kriketshaman]

I admire Wade's analysis of peoples and his articulation of thoughts.

[graciegail]

Wonderful

[S0uRxCHAMPAGNE]

anyone have a paper on this? LOL

[5Tavery]

I wish i could shadow wade for the rest of my life! or his, whichever ends first.

[altongrimes]

fabulous "window" on such a provocative subject......people like this man should be promoted to the "front pages" of our media, rather than the generalized chaos that passes for "news"...

[phantomwolf131]

what is the objective of his book?

[donquixbrote]

Sounds like Robin Williams.

[Farfromhere001]

I would die for Wade Davis!

[Ebuverthebicepcurler]

Losing half of man's languages doesn't= losing half of mans knowledge, and some languages are more developed and from more knowledgeable nations. What I do find interesting is the lose of concepts from other languages, perhaps some new perspectives could be reached? Still, what do we gain from languages very few are willing to learn outside of a small group? I suspect not as much as we gain from more people speaking the same language. Of course, the best is to know everything.

[aluxbalum]

Hearing Wade talk is like poetry, I recently worked with a photographer who was with him in various of his trips and said he is a wonderful human being, what is most important is how he articulates his ideas and makes you want to put in to action his ideas marvelous

[CandianBear]

it's interesting that not only are we destroying the natural world in our lust rush to embrace prosperity around the world but we're denuding our collective legacy of cultural knowledge and wisdom- when we look at fisheries, forest, soils, the atmosphere and tens of thousands of other examples the logical manifestations of the application of our collective moral and ethical values of the dominant culture can not sustain itself on the planet- a synthesis of the old and the new is our challenge.

[soulpower50]

I saw him on TED talks, very funny too.