Mother Pelican
A Journal of Solidarity and Sustainability

Vol. 19, No. 11, November 2023 Luis T. Gutiérrez, Editor

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We Need an Ecological Civilization See ~ Industrial civilization is terminally sick worldwide -- social disorder, ecological overshoot. Judge ~ We need an ecological civilization -- people over profit, economy subsidiary to ecology. Act ~ Simplify life, show people that the time for exploiting nature with no consequence is over. The Anthropocene I=PAT Equation and Ecological Overshoot Is Natural Population Decline a Concern? Maximum Power Principle The REAL Green New Deal Getting Honest About the Human Predicament The Future ~ What Future? The Ecocene ARTICLES Significant New Initiatives and Announcements Ecopoiesis: A Manifesto for an Ecological Civilization Alexander Kopytin & Arran Gare The Clean Energy Economy Turns Out to Be the Metals Energy Economy Kurt Cobb Ethics, Ideology, and Degrowth ~ Strategic Trajectory, Ethical Dilemmas, Six Ecological Insights Barbara Williams The Anthropocene? No. We're Actually Entering the Ecocene! David Bollier World Scientists' Warning: The Behavioural Crisis Driving Ecological Overshoot Joseph J. Merz et al Why I Am Not Going to Consult Artificial Intelligence Eileen Crist 2023 – 2033, The Decisive Decade ~ Getting Started James R. Martin Leaving Las Vegas ~ Interlude V ~ Improvising Counter-Hegemonies ~ "Why, You're UnAmerican!" Cara Judea Alhadeff Wanted: Colleagues to Help Make the Environmental-Progressive Movement More Effective Andrew Gaines How Environmental Professionals Acknowledge Overpopulation – And Then Ignore It Leon Kolankiewicz The World's Top Industrial Countries Are in Treacherous Waters Richard Heinberg Earth Systems Treaty: The Emerging Cross-cultural Commitment Geoffrey Holland "Climatewashing" ~ The Clean Energy Scheme Is Not Always Green Gary Wockner A New Papal Statement Hits—and Misses—the Mark Gary Gardner The Convergence: The Climate and the Economy Become One Ben Shread-Hewitt 'Sacrifice Zones': The New 'Jim Crow' That's Sickening and Killing People of Color Reynard Loki Tourism, Food, and the Cruel Fantasies of Well Fed People George Monbiot Palm Oil: The Ingredient Behind Human Rights Abuses and Eco-Destruction That's Probably in Your Home Right Now Reynard Loki Yanis Varoufakis's Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism Cory Doctorow How Community Energy Initiatives Can Be an Effective Tool for Degrowth Mariana Villegas-Mendoza Pronatalism on the Rise to Counter Growing Push for Gender Equality Nandita Bajaj Positive Masculinity ~ A New Hope for Boys and Young Men Ray Swann Comments on the Apostolic Exhortation Laudate Deum Luis T. Gutiérrez Significant New Initiatives and Announcements Non-academic Experts Working to Spread Sustainability Behaviors and Policies We are part of a global network of researchers who study the dynamics and evolution of human culture and how it can be applied to everyday life. We’re looking to connect with non-academic experts and practitioners who are working to achieve the widespread adoption of more sustainable behaviors (i.e. food consumption, transportation decisions) or policies (ie. corporate environmental goals, carbon tax laws), but are encountering resistance because making change can be costly for would-be adopters. Those are moments in which the mechanisms of cultural evolution are potentially quite valuable! We’d love to engage in a collaborative conversation to learn about your experiences — what your goals are, what’s been working well, and what has been challenging – and talk through whether/how insights from our research might be valuable. We’re open to connecting with folks working for social and cultural change for sustainability in any sector, including NGOs, business, government, education, grassroots and community organizations. Please reach out to Tim Waring or Rebecca Koomen to connect or learn more. Growing the Alternatives: Societies for a Future Beyond GDP To reach new places, we need to explore new paths. Only in this way will we achieve different realities, alternative futures shaped by equitable, collaborative societies committed to the environment. Can you imagine a place where growth is linked to life and justice rather than profit and the economy? At Greenpeace, we want to keep learning from the knowledge and lived experience of those communities – often marginalised and ignored – resisting the prevalent beliefs and assumptions that profit is the sole path to growth. Our aim is to share the theories and stories that sow the seeds of alternative futures with you. So, we have invited academics, organisations and activists from around the world to contribute their perspectives, for our three-episode publication called Growing the Alternatives: Societies for a Future Beyond GDP. Read and learn with us. Share it, discuss it and tell us: Do you know about any alternatives you want to share with us? Do you have questions about how this could really work? What can we do to make this happen? Read Chapter 1. IIASA Flagship Report: Illuminating the Path to Sustainable Wellbeing IIASA is proud to announce the launch of its Flagship Report, "Systems Analysis for Sustainable Wellbeing. 50 Years of IIASA Research, 40 Years After the Brundtland Commission, Contributing to the Post-2030 Global Agenda” on Wednesday, 13 September 2023 at an official UN event in the framework of the 78th session of the UN General Assembly and the Sustainable Development Goals mid-term review. Download and read the report. Platform to Help Communicate Degrowth Degrowth is a radical alternative to the dominant paradigm of infinite growth, a paradigm that society has accepted as a natural law to human civilization, and a law that cannot be questioned or denied. Degrowth aims to challenges the assumptions and values of our current system and proposes a more sustainable, equitable, and meaningful way of living. A project is underway to create a platform with various tools to help individuals and organisations communicate degrowth more effectively and empathetically. Click on the image to enlarge Platform to Help Communicate Degrowth |Back to Outline| LINK TO THE CURRENT ISSUE          LINK TO THE HOME PAGE

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