Vinculando.org: Revista electrónica latinoamericana en Desarrollo Sustentable

According to recent studies released about environmental footprints and climate change, one in six people may eventually suffer from water shortage, up to 100 million may become refugees due to rising water levels, and between 10-100 million may flee their homes due to severe draughts.

We are led to believe that by 2050 mankind will need two "Planet Earths" to overcome its environmental footprint in order to feed itself. With these changes it is predicted that only 600 of the approximately 6000 indigenous languages spoken today will be alive in 50 years. Their loss will also lead to the loss of knowledge that inherently lives in the cultures quieted forever. Today there are still 127 distinct languages spoken in Brazil. Were they to disappear, so would the knowledge of potential medicinal uses of the many varieties of the great Cerrado Biome currently being plowed under to make way for monocultures such as soy bean, corn, cotton and coffee.