Mother Pelican
A Journal of Solidarity and Sustainability

Vol. 20, No. 12, December 2024 Luis T. Gutiérrez, Editor

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Growth, Technophobia, and Technophilia Technology is the application of knowledge for practical purposes. The practical purposes may be good, or bad, or a mix of good and bad. When the side effects and unintended consequences are considered, it gets complicated. All technologies consume raw materials, require energy inputs, dissipate heat, and induce ecological entropy. Technophobia is the irrational presumption that all technologies are socially harmful. Technophilia is the irrational presumption that all technologies are socially beneficial. Technophobia is bad but, in today's techno-industrial world, technophilia is becoming even worse because it creates false hopes that technologies alone can resolve complex existential issues like population growth, the great acceleration, and ecological overshoot. BLESSED ADVENT & MERRY CHRISTMAS CONTENTS Significant Research and Forthcoming Events Humanity: The She & He & It ~ What is the Bible? J. J. McKenzie How We Got This Way—An Unsustainable Existence Clifton Ware Tastes Like Mangoes: Collectively Resisting Kakistocracy Cara Judea Alhadeff The Wealth Supremacy Mindset Barbara Williams Navigating the Conservation Paradox in Loliondo: The Maasai Predicament Paul Ole Leitura Kenya's Wealth Supremacy Obsession: Chasing Riches, Losing Values Jack Mazingira Twelve Economic Growth Myths and How to Counter Them Dave Darby Beyond Growth: A Journey Through the Landscape of Sustainable Economics Richard Heinberg Underlying the Democrats' Defeat in the 2024 USA Presidential Election Gus Speth A Paradigm Shifting Presidency ~ Oligarchy Now Rules the USA Barbara Williams "Fake It Till You Break It" ~ Submitting to the Inescapable Tim Morgan The American Food System Creates Chronic Diseases, the Medical System 'Manages' Them Kurt Cobb It Is Time We Educate Children About the Coming Collapse George Tsakraklides The Future Is Named Helene Andrew Nikiforuk Our Fragile Infrastructure: Lessons From Hurricane Helene Ellen Brown Naïve Optimism vs. Reality: The True State of Our Planet and Energy Future Art Berman The Globalized, Industrialized Food System Is Destroying the World—We Urgently Need to Support Local Food Economies Helena Norberg-Hodge Companies Are Buying Up Cheap Carbon Offsets—Data Suggest It May Be More About Greenwashing than Helping the Climate Sehoon Kim Timothy Snyder: 'Our Problem Is Us' Crawford Kilian Here Come Trump's Concentration Camps Crawford Kilian Losing Honestly and Gracefully Robert Jensen Falling Human Fertility Can't Be Reversed by Cheerleading for Motherhood Kurt Cobb Innovation as a Matter of Life and Death Giorgio Baruchello Significant Research and Forthcoming Events Conference of Parties (COP29) "Current climate agenda is nothing short of disastrous as false solutions are promoted as climate mitigation tools." Via Campesina, 22 November 2024 Click on the image to enlarge. Energy, Economics, and the Limits of Growth What Trump's Victory Reveals About America's Challenges Art Berman, Shattering Energy Myths, 20 November 2024 From Extraction to End-uses and Waste Management Economy-wide Material Cycles and Stock Dynamics Dominik Wiedenhofer et al, Journal of Industrial Ecology, 12 November 2024 2024 Global Carbon Budget Fossil Fuel CO2 Emissions Increase Again in 2024 Global Carbon Project ~ Report Summary and Links Living Planet Report 2024 ~ A System in Peril Full Report ~ Executive Summary ~ Key Findings ~ Youth Edition World Wide Fund For Nature ~ Download & Key Findings Planetary Health Check Report 2024 A Scientific Assessment of the State of the Planet Potsdam Institute ~ Link to the Report The 2024 State of the Climate Report: Perilous Times on Planet Earth William Ripple et al, BioScience, 8 October 2024 Link to the Article The Gender Snapshot 2024 UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs & UN Women Link to the Report A Climate of (De-)Civilization? Shifting Dynamics between Nature and Society Dortmund University, Germany, 12-14 March 2025 Conference Website 18th Conference of the International Society for Ecological Economics and 11th International Degrowth Conference University of Oslo, Norway ~ 24-27 June 2025 Conference Website |Back to Outline| LINK TO THE CURRENT ISSUE          LINK TO THE HOME PAGE

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