Fight for Survival

Ministry fails to get its language scheme rightHow technology can save dying indigenous languages
Persian swallowed alive by English language: linguist
Dingle pupils protest against Irish language policyNew website promotes importance of Gaelic language

It's been everywhere, a veritable cloud cover across the Google Alerts- Languages landscape. Languages fighting to make it to the next generation. Some wield bold new weapons, like the Miromaa program developed by the Arwarbukarl Cultural Resource Association, to protect their David from the assimilating force of language Goliaths. Other larger languages, like Ali Khazaeifar's Persian, can feel the ground shaking as the younger generations start to slip away. And underneath this battle no one can hear the whisper of a question... Does it really matter?
In relatively few of these articles, someone actually bothers to present a reason for the necessity of their language's continued existence. Each group just feels their language to be key to their own survival, acting out of a cultural self-preservation. But on the broad historical scale, is ti actually relevant if an individual language, or for that matter thousands of languages, blink out of existence?
John J. Miller doesn't hold back in what he considers the ridiculous attempts of language preservationists to prevent 'Language Death'. In his article How Do You Say 'Extinct'? , he points out that most languages facing language death do not offer that much to the general global population, and often language death is a natural cause of choices made by the native speakers to learn a new language for better chance of survival.
In this way language death is part of a more general 'language evolution', where the stronger more useful languages survive. If a person's life or environment changes, so that knowing one language provides a better chance for comfortable survival, is it wrong of them to choose against their mother tongue.
I can't say I feel great pull for preserving every language in existence. Recording and learning them before they pass on I consider of the utmost importance, but actual preservation comes down to the choice of the speakers.
There is no denying there is a wealth of knowledge within dying languages. If Languages are intrinsically connected to how we think, loss of language represents loss of mindset, loss of world view, even loss of some potential systems of thinking which could provide new approaches to modern problems.
And yet I find myself apathetic. In the end, I feel it is the choice of each set of speakers to preserve or not preserve their language. If they choose to, if on a multi generational level they are actively pursuing it, then there should be outside resources available, but it should not be the job of international organizations to keep these languages on life support. It just feels unnatural.