The ways of the world baffle and dismay me at times. This modern society has much to learn from indigenous peoples from all parts of the world, but why does this knowledge need to be continually taken in such a greedy manner? I refer in this instance to biopiracy, the commercialization of traditional medicines: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioprospecting
There are organisations and people who are outraged by this behaviour, and in their different ways, endeavour to raise awareness and to change the approach.
Alex Steffen is one such person, who wrote an article back in 2004 http://www.worldchanging.com/archives//000941.html
and more recently, Regine Debatty http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/008013.html looking at it from an art perspective, with works by Ines Doujak.
Art has a way of bypassing our conditioned minds, and getting a new message through to the heart of the matter. Long live Art.
