Mother Pelican
A Journal of Solidarity and Sustainability

Vol. 19, No. 12, December 2023 Luis T. Gutiérrez, Editor

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We Need a Simple and Peaceful Christmas "You will find a baby wrapped in cloths and lying in a manger." Luke 2:12 Not an emperor. Not a patriarch. Not a bully. Just a baby of poor homeless parents. May we have a Merry Christmas, simple and peaceful, not a wasteful extravaganza. The Patriarchs The Anthropocene I=PAT Equation and Ecological Overshoot Is Natural Population Decline a Concern? The Maximum Power Principle Getting Honest About the Human Predicament The REAL Green New Deal The PallasCeres Report ~ An Intelligent Energy Transformation Plan The Future ~ What Future? World Resources 2023 Laudato Si' Fratelli Tutti Laudate Deum COP28 Website ARTICLES Significant New Initiatives and Announcements A Brief Overview: Humanity's Socio-Ecological Predicament and Unknown Future Clifton Ware The Gasoline-Powered Leaf Blower as a Metaphor for Industrial Society Richard Heinberg Have We Reached the End of Nature? Our Relationship with the Environment is in Crisis Derek Lynch The Worst Addiction: Population Growth Joseph Chamie Nonviolence, the Challenge of the 21st Century Nelson Hidalgo Concha Carbon Budget for 1.5°C Will Run Out in Six Years at Current Emissions Levels Chris Smith & Robin Lamboll Global Energy Transition: Race to the Bottom Gary Horvitz There Are No Externalities in an Ecological Civilization Cara Judea Alhadeff Graphite: A New Energy Economy Resource Is Suddenly Harder to Get Kurt Cobb Artificial Intelligence: The Information Economy Becomes Even More Energy and Resource Intensive Kurt Cobb Centering Nonviolence in Catholic Social Teaching and Practice Eli McCarthy The Imperative—and Peril—of Density Dave Rollo Overview of the PallasCeres Report ~ An Intelligent Energy Transformation Plan Megan K. Seibert The Climate Emergency and the Urgency of System Change Asoka Bandarage Seeing Through the Economic Bait and Switch Sonali Kolhatkar A Bad Recipe for Science ~ Rethinking Our Response to Climate Change Judith Curry More than Half of World's Largest Companies' Net Zero Pledges Are False Promises Dana Drugmand An Unbloody Plan ~ The Flaw in the Bloody Plan Barbara Williams Chocolate, Systems Thinking, and Tomorrow's Global Citizens Ali Kharrazi & Zuelclady Araujo Gutierrez Reshaping the Local Frontiers of Farming and Biodiversity Gerid Hager & Youri Martin Running Short of Tailwinds for the Economy Gail Tverberg Recalibration of Limits to Growth: An Update of the World3 Model Arjuna Nebel et al Unmasking the Patriarchy: Its Origins, Impact, and the Path to Equality Cody Peluso Significant New Initiatives and Announcements Creating a Platform for Disaster Management and Risk Reduction Nadejda Komendantova & Tatiana Ermolieva International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), 18 October 2023 IIASA researchers are contributing to the Horizon Europe funded PARATUS project, which aims to promote disaster preparedness and resilience by co-developing stakeholder support tools for managing the systemic risk of compounding disasters. Civilization's Running Out of Gas What happens when civilization runs out of fossil fuels. Jack Alpert, Civilization's Running Out of Gas, October 2023. 2023 Production Gap Report United Nations Production Gap Report 2023, 8 November 2023. The 2023 Production Gap Report: "Phasing down or phasing up? Top fossil fuel producers plan even more extraction despite climate promises" assesses governments’ planned and projected production of coal, oil, and gas against global levels consistent with the Paris Agreement’s temperature goal. Evolution and Sustainability: Gathering the Strands for an Anthropocene Synthesis Philosophical Transactions of The Royal Society Volume 379, Issue 1893, 1 January 2024 SUMMARY How did human societies evolve to become a major force of global change? What dynamics can lead societies on a trajectory of global sustainability? The astonishing growth in human population, economic activity, technological capacity and environmental impact - together known as the Anthropocene - has brought these questions to the fore. In this theme issue, we bring together the major elements of a theory of human evolution and sustainability on Earth. We show how diverse theories and approaches help to understand the past, present and future evolution of the Anthropocene, and discover new opportunities for moving towards sustainability. Collectively, the work provides the basis for an evolutionary synthesis of the human predicament on planet Earth. Too Much? Too Little? Too Late? Millennium Alliance for Humanity and the Biosphere December 6, 2023, 10:00 AM PST / 1:00 PM EST Where humanity is headed in an overcrowded, over-consuming world. Webinar: CLICK HERE TO REGISTER |Back to Outline| LINK TO THE CURRENT ISSUE          LINK TO THE HOME PAGE

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