ethnosphere

It is "development at any cost", which is a cultural belief like any other, but one that is decimating what Wade Davis has termed the "ethnosphere".

The Guardian World News John Schertow 2010

And so, what I'd like to do with you today is sort of take you on a journey through the ethnosphere -- a brief journey through the ethnosphere to try to begin to give you a sense of what in fact is being lost.

Wade Davis on endangered cultures 2003

And so, what I'd like to do with you today is sort of take you on a journey through the ethnosphere -- a brief journey through the ethnosphere to try to begin to give you a sense of what in fact is being lost.

Wade Davis on endangered cultures 2003

And you might think of this cultural web of life as being an ethnosphere and you might define the ethnosphere as being the sum total of all thoughts and dreams, myths, ideas, inspirations, intuitions brought into being by the human imagination since the dawn of consciousness.

Wade Davis on endangered cultures 2003

And just as the biosphere has been severely eroded, so too is the ethnosphere -- and if anything at a far greater rate.

Wade Davis on endangered cultures 2003

And just as the biosphere has been severely eroded, so too is the ethnosphere -- and if anything at a far greater rate.

Wade Davis on endangered cultures 2003

And you might think of this cultural web of life as being an ethnosphere and you might define the ethnosphere as being the sum total of all thoughts and dreams, myths, ideas, inspirations, intuitions brought into being by the human imagination since the dawn of consciousness.

Wade Davis on endangered cultures 2003

And you might think of this cultural web of life as being an ethnosphere and you might define the ethnosphere as being the sum total of all thoughts and dreams, myths, ideas, inspirations, intuitions brought into being by the human imagination since the dawn of consciousness.

Wade Davis on endangered cultures 2003

It's not change or technology that threatens the integrity of the ethnosphere.

Wade Davis on endangered cultures 2003

It's not change or technology that threatens the integrity of the ethnosphere.

Wade Davis on endangered cultures 2003