Mother Pelican
A Journal of Solidarity and Sustainability

Vol. 21, No. 9, September 2025 Luis T. Gutiérrez, Editor

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Solidarity for Long-term Sustainability This is the Golden Rule: "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you." The insatiable greed for more energy and natural resources is not sustainable forever. Solidarity at all levels -- local, national, international -- is the only way to sustainability. Responsible parenthood. Responsible consumption. Responsible waste disposal. Else, dark times ahead; and energy-intensive technologies are making matters worse by way of increasing entropy and complexity. As long we ignore the common good, technological miracles are not coming to the rescue. A cultural revolution of social/ecological solidarity is now indispensable. "There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus." (Galatians 3:28) 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 FREE DOWNLOAD 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 Mary of Nazareth. This would be a good time to transcend CANON 1024. What is degrowth? CONTENTS Significant Research and Forthcoming Events Let's (Not) Choose Sides and Fight Richard Heinberg Human Ecology and the Law of Requisite Variety William E. Rees Twenty-four Reasons Why We Are Hooped ~ On Human Cognitive Deficiency William E. Rees A Little Learning (or Too Much Ignorance) Can Be a Dangerous Thing Clifton Ware Developing a "Big-Picture" Worldview Clifton Ware The Myth of Infinite Growth Kumbirai Thierry Nhamo The Global Environmental Crisis ~ What Does World Population Day Have to Do With It? Charles Knight Iceland's Renewable Dreams, Fossil Realities Art Berman 'New Era of Climate Accountability': ICJ Says Nations Have Legal Duty to Combat Planetary Crisis Jake Johnson Climate Reparations are Necessary but Not Sufficient: World Needs Less Growth & More Justice Kirsten Stade Some Thoughts on Humanity's Really Big Disease Bob Este The Hidden Cost of AI: How Energy-Hungry Algorithms Are Fueling the Climate Crisis Sharon Kumar The Coming Deconstruction of Global Money Tim Morgan Half of the Global Population Can't Afford Healthy Food Gunnar Rundgren The Dream That Humanity Is Unable To Wake Up From George Tsakraklides Greenwashing in the Amazon: Debunking False Green Solutions Mauricio López Tariffs vs. Tankers: Why Trump's Clash with India Misses the Real Energy Battlefield Art Berman Preparing for the Darkness and Holding the Light Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee Towards a Climate-Capable Democracy Gus Speth Drones of Change: The Rise of a Violence-Based Economy Ugo Bardi Is "Degrowth" a New Concept for You? Richard Grossman The Power to Resist Power: Reclaiming Reverse Dominance in a Post-hierarchical World Kasper Benjamin Reimer Bjørkskov The Annihilation of the Ontological Feminine Kevin R. Nelson Big Beautiful Barns Anna Bowden Supplement ~ Meditations on Man and Woman, Humanity and Nature Supplement ~ Dynamics of Growth, De-Growth, and Post-Growth Significant Research and Forthcoming Events Routledge Handbook of Degrowth Edited by Anitra Nelson, Taylor & Francis Group, 2025 Open Access, Creative Commons, FREE DOWNLOAD Why Oil Prices Don't Rise to Consistently High Levels Gail Tverberg, Our Finite World, 19 August 2025 "The price issue is basically a physics issue because the world economy operates under the laws of physics... The danger is that the world economy is growing increasingly fragile because of long-term changes related to added complexity... Both history and physics suggest that “overshoot and collapse over a period of years” is the outcome we should expect." Overshoot, Complexity, Collapse, and Ways Forward Population Balance, Shrink Toward Abundance, 19 August 2025 "Modern techno-industrial civilization is running up against the law of diminishing returns... We examine ... the patriarchal pronatalism that fuels overpopulation, the growth-obsessed economic systems that drive consumerism and social injustice, and the dominant worldview of human supremacy that subjugates animals and nature.... Our vision of shrinking toward abundance inspires us to seek pathways of transformation that go beyond technological fixes toward a new humanity that honors our interconnectedness with all of life." From Explosion to Implosion: The New Population Challenge Michael Vandenbergh & Thomas Dietz, Social Science Research Network, 25 August 2025 Open Access, FREE DOWNLOAD Fear of Humans Salvador Herrando-Pérez, Conservation Bytes, 28 August 2025 "The landscape of fear intensifies with the mere presence of humans, and its effects ripple through the food web." World Resources Forum 2025 The Other Side of Depletion: The Pollution Impact of Mineral Resources WRF 2025, 2-5 September, Geneva, Switzerland Photo credit: Club of Rome. Click on the image to enlarge. Next Economies Summit 2025 International Degrowth Network ~ United Next Economies Conference Website, 12-14 September 2025, Istanbul, Turkey 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 The 11th World Sustainability Forum Sustainable and Resilient Cities WSF 2025, Barcelona, Spain, 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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