Mother Pelican
A Journal of Solidarity and Sustainability

Vol. 21, No. 8, August 2025 Luis T. Gutiérrez, Editor

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Integral Renewal of Human Agency Authoritarian forms of governance, rooted in the patriarchal ideology of male supremacy, are not conducive to solidarity and sustainability, let alone an integral renewal of human relations. On the contrary, they tend to induce irresponsible parenthood via pro-natalist incentives, worsen economic inequality by imposing inflationary tariffs and giving huge tax breaks to the very rich, exacerbate energy throughput regardless of ecological impacts, cancel DEI frameworks, and trigger national debt explosion to fund massive deportation programs and other forms of control that are insensitive to the cry of the poor and the cry of the earth. In the USA, the OBBBA is a case in point. It is 'business as usual' (BAU) on financial steroids. One Sacred Community Mary Southard CSJ Ministry of the Arts * 2025 * 10th Anniversary of Laudato Si' on Care of the Planet and Integral Ecology and 5th Anniversary of Fratelli Tutti on Solidarity and Integral Human Development Laudate Deum A Last Call for the Planet LSRI, 17 June 2025 Pro Custodia Creationis For the Care of Creation Pope Leo, 9 July 2025 Contemplative gaze? What about action? Is anyone listening? Is anyone acting? PATRIARCHY is a deeply ingrained gender ideology. There can be no integral human development as long as religious patriarchy lurks in the collective unconscious. For 1.4B Catholics, 1 November 2025 will mark the 75th Anniversary of the dogma of the ASSUMPTION of the Virgin Mary. This would be a good time to transcend priestly patriarchy. CONTENTS Significant Research and Forthcoming Events What Energy Transition? William E. Rees Sankofa Part One – History's Most Challenging Moments Nick King Sankofa Part Two – Pathways, Lessons, and Challenges for the Future Nick King Envisioning an Intentional Socio-ecological Community Clifton Ware The Law that Can't Be Broken William E. Rees The Debt Bomb Art Berman Western Technology and the Rediscovery of Indigenous Wisdom Joseph Isidore Fernando Demystifying Degrowth Barbara Williams A Distracted World Marches Steadily Towards Catastrophe Julian Cribb Back to the Führer? Steve Burgess Donald Trump's Autocratic One-Man Regime is Doomed to Failure, but Not Before a Lot of Chaos and Destruction Rodrigue Tremblay Reclaiming Energy, Reimagining Power: Building Energy Futures from Below Madhuresh Kumar No Steady State Economy with Global South in Debt Crisis Alix Underwood Illegitimate Power, Illegitimate Violence: How Nations Are Built on the Backs of Disenfranchised Children Carter Dillard and Zahara Nabakooza Robert's Paradigm ~ The Politics of Economic Contraction Tim Morgan Dissecting An Economic Parasite: The Story of the Greatest Fraud on Earth George Tsakraklides Reality Blindness ~ The Greatest Threat to Our Civilization Art Berman Can We Stop the Wave of Violence? Ugo Bardi Introducing the Natural Resources and Electricity Cap-and-Trade Act David Shreve Bottom-Up or Top-Down: How to Degrow the Economy Vlad Bunea Why We Need a Solidarity Economy Now Rick Wilson Trump's Logging Push Thrusts a Dagger at the Heart of Wilderness Ted Williams The Invention of Gender Roles: Division by Design Kevin R. Nelson I'm Still Waiting for the US Church to Have an 'Ecological Conversion' Michael Wright Supplement ~ Meditations on Man and Woman, Humanity and Nature Supplement ~ Dynamics of Growth, De-Growth, and Post-Growth Significant Research and Forthcoming Events Has the Economy Outgrown the Planet? John Mulrow et al, Degrowth Institute, June 2025 Civilization's Predicament and Its Unwinding Behavior Jack Alpert, Stanford Knowledge Integration Laboratory, 2 July 2025 2025 Statistical Review of World Energy Energy Institute, July 2025 The Earth4All Scenarios: Human Wellbeing on a Finite Planet Towards 2100 Espen Stokne, Global Sustainability, 4 July 2025 Worrying Indications in Recently Updated World Energy Data Gail Tverberg, Our Finite World, 14 July 2025 "These trends help explain the strange behaviors that we have been seeing from governments recently: [1] The world’s per capita affordable supply of diesel has been declining, especially since 2014. [2] Copper supply seems to be constrained. [3] Platinum extraction also seems to be constrained. [4] Up until this report, the Statistical Review of World Energy has used an optimistic approach to quantifying the benefits of intermittent renewable electricity. [5] With the new methodology, there are significant changes in patterns from past reports. [6] The sad state of nuclear generation deserves a discussion of its own. [7] The recent annual rising trend of 0.2% in per capita consumption of energy looks vulnerable to disruption by any economic problem that arises. [8] China plays a huge role in the world’s energy consumption. As resource limits are hit, China has the potential to pull the world economy down with it. [9] Inflation-adjusted oil prices have bounced around, rather than following a consistent upward pattern. This limits their long-term impact on production. [10] Conclusion ~ The world economy is hitting energy limits in many ways." Obligations of States in Respect of Climate Change International Court of Justice, 23 July 2025 Earth Overshoot Day 2025 Correcting Humanity's Largest Market Failure Earth Overshoot Day & Global Footprint Network, 24 July 2025 The Hidden Cost of AI: How Energy-Hungry Algorithms Are Fueling the Climate Crisis Sharon Kumar, Independent Media Institute, 25 July 2025 2025 World Sustainable Development Summit UN Commission for Sustainable Development, London, 25-29 August 2025 Global Environment Outlook (GEO-7) The GEO-7 Journey, UN Environment Programme, October 2025 Raising Hope Conference for the tenth anniversary of Laudato Si’ Laudato Si Movement Rome, Italy, 2-3 October 2025 International Climate Resilience Conference The Ludwig-Maximilian-University of Munich Munich, Germany, 26-29 October 2025 UN Climate Change Conference 30th Conference of the Parties (COP30) United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Belém, Brazil, 10-21 November 2025 |Back to Contents| LINK TO THE CURRENT ISSUE          LINK TO THE HOME PAGE

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