>This article offers no arguments other than "global languages never lasted forever before". But never before have we had a globalized world today like before.

>This article offers no arguments other than "global languages never lasted forever before". But never before have we had a globalized world today like before. What happened before was a civilization would rise, have influence, and then collapse and be replaced by another with a whole different culture, including the language. Now we have a single economy and technology, popular entertainment, and so on, and it will never go away (baring global ecological catastrophe), and English just happens to be its language. The costs of keeping it all but changing the language in midstream are just far to high to ever happen.