Bio-Cultural-Linguistic diversity is an area of unique study, suggesting that the environment in which we live has connections to us as individuals, to our culture and langauge, an interdependency.

Luisa Maffi is one of the leading researchers in this area an produces pubications with Terralingua which can be viewed at http://www.terralingua.org

Please take the time to look very carefully at this website as it has a wealth of information on this subject.

As well, they have an e-newsletter which you can subscribe to on this important topic.

At no time in the history of man have we seen nature so pushed to the edge of extinction, and the lives of people like the Akha, degraded. 

One of the sure ways to consider your religious belief in new light is to ask yourself which civilizations have done the most to destroy and deplete the earth, and what were their religious beliefs? This is a question to be reconciled no matter what one's persuasion.