Diverse communities are healthy communities.
There are now less than 2 000. There are now only a few hundred remaining. Half of the languages spoken in the world have been extinguished, and we are rapidly extinguishing the ones that remain. In agriculture, monoculture involves the intensive farming of one particular crop. Rather than using traditional farming methods of crop rotation and leaving fields fallow, monoculture depends on fertiliser and pesticides to allow this intensive farming of the same land to continue year after year.