Mother Pelican
A Journal of Solidarity and Sustainability

Vol. 21, No. 1, January 2025 Luis T. Gutiérrez, Editor

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The False Hope of Endless Growth It has been said that "false hopes are more dangerous than fears" (J.R.R. Tolkien). The hope of endless population and economic growth is false and very dangerous for the human species. We seem to be marching toward social and ecological collapse worldwide, collectively blind to the impossibility of infinite growth in a finite planet. It is time for political leaders, business executives, and common citizens to wake up and face reality; it is time to seek population and consumption reduction in a manner that is socially fair and to a level that is ecologically sustainable. RESILIENT NEW YEAR 2025 CONTENTS Recent Research and Forthcoming Events Confronting the United Nations' Pro-growth Agenda: A Call to Reverse Ecological Overshoot Nandita Bajaj, Eileen Crist, Kirsten Stade "GreenBashing" ~ The End of Environmentalism Ugo Bardi Lilith Refuses the Anthropocene: What My Mother Taught Me Cara Judea Alhadeff Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs and High Energy Modernity Nick King President of the Titanic Kurt Cobb Envisioning a Livable Future Richard Heinberg Envisioning a Sustainable Socioecological Future, Part 1 Clifton Ware Envisioning a Sustainable Socioecological Future, Part 2 Clifton Ware Environmental-Political Collapse Accelerates Richard Heinberg The Political Cataclysm: Causes, Implications, and a Way Forward Jeremy Lent Energy, Economics, and the Limits of Growth: What Trump's Victory Reveals About America's Challenges Art Berman Solutions Without Understanding: Why We're Asking the Wrong Questions Art Berman Biodiversity is Biosecurity Leen Gorissen CDRCs: A Proposal Concerning Work, Resilience, and the Repopulation of the Countryside Manuel Casal Lodeiro Witness: Tales from the Sargasso Sea Eileen Crist The Commercial Fishing Industry Is Destroying Vital Marine Ecosystems Vicky Bond Wind and Solar Can't Support the Grid Russ Schussler Meltwater from Greenland and the Arctic is Weakening Ocean Circulation, Speeding Up Warming Down South Laurie Menviel & Gabriel Pontes Fourteen Propositions for Planning an Escape from Overshoot Peter A. Victor We Did Not Evolve to Be Selfish—and Humans Are Increasingly Aware We Can Choose How Our Cultures Can Evolve April M. Short Too Many Elephants in the Room: The Overpopulation Taboo George Tsakraklides The Coming Population Collapse Ugo Bardi Consumption Is Driving Global Greenhouse Gas Emissions Mark Diesendorf Recent Research and Forthcoming Events World 4.5 Simulation Model Dynamics of the Humansphere and the Ecosphere, 1900-2100 Christopher Bystroff, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 2024 LINK (for info on the 4.5 version, click on the 🛈 symbol) The Future of Geothermal Energy International Energy Agency, December 2024 LINK Rethinking Energy, Productivity, and the Illusion of Endless Growth Art Berman, Shattering Energy Myths, 3 December 2024 LINK Mapping the Patriarchy in Conservation Leonie Bossert, Tom Crompton, Anwesha Dutta, Joni Seager Biodiversity, Volume 3, Article 38, 12 December 2024 LINK Control Oil and You Control Nations Art Berman, Shattering Energy Myths, 16 December 2024 LINK Unpacking the Coloniality of Energy, Seeking Alternatives From Below Carlos Tornel et al, Global Tapestry of Alternatives, December 2024 LINK Habitability for a Connected, Unequal, and Changing World Harald Sterly et al, Global Environmental Change, Volume 90, March 2025 LINK 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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