Bioneers

This last week I attended the 2009 Bioneers conference. Bioneers is an organization concerned with all matters of sustainability and healing the earth...except, apparantly, questions of population. Now, granted, I couldn't be everywhere at once; I attended all the plenary talks except for those held on Saturday...it could be that they brought up overpopulation and questions of the sustainability of human population on that day...however, if any of the talks in that roster had sounded remotely like they might do that, I would have attended with a great fire in my heart.


I attended workshops in the afternoons, and heard many marvelous ideas about sustainability education, living buildings, and empowerment of towns to say 'No' to industry and protect their local resources. But at no time in any of the many, many hours that I attended the conference, did anyone mention overpopulation, even hint that it might be an issue, that it might be one of the reasons why our natural systems are crashing.


Sigh.