As an aside, I remember hearing recently that the loss of languages also means we are losing species. Many species are only known to native groups and when their language and they die out those species are unknown to the rest of us. An unexpected repercussion.

i think the global economic rationalist culture has bought its efficiencies of scale
by omission and abstraction of the data it relies on.

the ecological and social web which is the true value is
only understood in terms of its economic value to moneyed interests.

this means that the system selects for sile mass production of smaeness including culture.
because this is most manageable at scale.

unfortunately this abstraction when seen from the inverse perspective results in large scale
monoculture and loss of diversity and cultural and social subtlety and interoperability between different species.

appreciate that people who are related to these diversities may not see them as invaluable but
perhaps that is because the wider culture cannot appreciate complex subtleties which are not able to be expressed as products.