Post No. 5

Because the Panama Canal is a major passageway for massive industrial ships, the ecosystem has suffered significantly. Not to mention, the land used to create the Panama Canal was taken from indigenous groups and sold to the United States Government, who permanently altered the landscape, severing North America from South America. Climate change and other forms of pollution threatens the way of life that indigenous populations lead, especially when they don't even understand why or how it is happening. Elizabeth Lindsey is absolutely correct in saying that we are not heading in the right direction in terms of how we, as people in power, choose to maintain the remaining biodiversity we have on the planet.

Endangered cultures are essentially ethnic enclaves that exist in societies disconnected from the globalized world, and are at risk of having their customs and ways of life be erased by being forced to adapt to the global community. It is extremely important that governments and corporations try to leave these communities independent, but this is rarely taken seriously as many of these communities are minuscule in population and underrepresented in their country's government. Davis mentioned Nunavut, a province in Canada that has been given autonomy as reparation for the encroachment of the Canadian government on the Inuit way of life as an example of what other countries with endangered populations should do.

Eurocentrism is the tendency for western culture, and in turn global media, to revolve around the cultures of countries of Western Europe and the United States to some extent. Going beyond eurocentrism means looking past globalized, Americanized culture and going deeper.