Mother Pelican
A Journal of Solidarity and Sustainability

Vol. 20, No. 10, October 2024 Luis T. Gutiérrez, Editor

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Growth, Degrowth, and the Maximum Power Principle This edition focuses on the use and abuse of power by humans. The power of fossil fuels has been used and abused to the point of overshooting the regeneration capacity of the biosphere. Can humans moderate their use of power? Can humans embrace simplicity? Avoid wars? Pursue peace with justice? That degrowth is coming after overshoot is not a matter of if, but when. It is critically urgent to discern how human agency can best proceed going forward. Trumpism and Fascism, a well as Communism, defy the Christian ethos. Conscious cultural evolution, pursuant to moderating the use of energy and fostering sustainable solidarity is the only sensible path going forward. CONTENTS Significant Research and Forthcoming Events What Donald Trump Understands about American Men Jackson Katz Update about American Men ~ Promise Keepers Revival? Carrie N. Baker A Telling TED Talk ~ Fueling Climate Inertia Barbara Williams The Biggest Issue is NOT Climate Change; it is OVERSHOOT Erik Michaels Ironic and Tragic: Technological Fundamentalism and Our Fear of Limits Robert Jensen The Seneca Cliff of Petroleum Production Ugo Bardi Just the Clash of Opinions or Different Facts? Facing the Epistemological Divide Kurt Cobb Political Collapse: Lessons From Fallen Empires Richard E. Blanton et al Anti-Fascism as Constitutive of the Gospel Ethic Marty Tomszak Defining the Problem: Pinpointing the Contours of Fascism Marty Tomszak They Shall Not Pass! The Catholic Worker Ethos, Faithful Direct Action, and the Anti-Fa Christ Marty Tomszak Necronomics: Ecological Fraud and the Civilizational Lie George Tsakraklides Signs of Collapse: Blaming It on Immigration Dave Pollard Under both Trump and Biden-Harris, US Oil and Gas Production Surged to Record Highs, Despite Very Different Energy Goals Valerie Thomas A Steady Stater's Response to the Harris-Trump Debate Brian Czech Trumpism is Leading America to the Valley of Dry Bones Rodney Kennedy Put Our Children Ahead of Ourselves or See Civilization Collapse Rahul Basu Why Children's Rights Are Critical for Climate Policy and Environmental Activism Esther Afolaranmi & Carter Dillard "Intellectual Hick": Sorting Out Our Complex Identities Robert Jensen Resisting Christofascism Today Dannis Matteson And Then Everything Changed ~ Part One: Mourning Elizabeth Ann Bartlett And Then Everything Changed ~ Part Two: Joy Elizabeth Ann Bartlett Cultural Evolution of Patriarchal Iconography Mary Jane Miller & Margarita Abramov Significant Research and Forthcoming Events It's Debatable: Talking Authentically about Tricky Topics Robert Jensen, Olive Branch Press, 2024 It's Debatable: Talking Authentically about Tricky Topics offers a path toward a deeper, richer public conversation than might seem possible in today’s polarized political climate. Robert Jensen writes for those who yearn for debates based on evidence, reason, critical self-reflection, and mutual respect. The book offers a model for how to engage others rationally without discounting the powerful emotional component of our lives; how to think for oneself and at the same time recognize that thinking is a collective enterprise; and how to defend strongly held political positions while inviting critique. It’s Debatable demystifies intellectual life and encourages rigorous thinking by ordinary people, to better equip citizens to participate in political life. Behavioural and Experimental Economics for Sustainability (BEES) University of Florence (Italy) ~ 17-18 October 2024 Workshop Website New Thinking in Industrial Policy: Perspectives from Developed and Developing Countries Columbia University ~ 1-2 November 2024 Conference Website Think Tank on Innovative Communication for Social Change With Andrew Gaines, 21-23 November 2024, Sydney, Australia Information and Point of Contact A Climate of (De-)Civilization? Shifting Dynamics between Nature and Society Dortmund University, Germany, 12-14 March 2025 Conference Website |Back to Outline| LINK TO THE CURRENT ISSUE          LINK TO THE HOME PAGE

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