Mother Pelican
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Vol. 21, No. 2, February 2025 Luis T. Gutiérrez, Editor

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The Limits of the Human Animal "The undeniable difference between us and other animals defines the human condition and places a special responsibility on us to consider our actions in the context of other living beings and our shared habitat. It also calls on us to cultivate an ethics of not-knowing: to recognize that, however much we may seek to understand the world, we will never completely master it. Our grasp of reality, mediated by our animal minds, will always be limited: much is and will remain alien to us, lending itself only to speculation – and to remember this is to stand us in better stead for carving out an existence among the environmental crisis that looms before us all." Markus Gabriel, The Human Animal: Why We Still Don't Fit into Nature, Polity Books, February 2025 CONTENTS Significant Research and Forthcoming Events Overshoot and the Incredible Shrinking Planet ~ A Many-Faceted Problem William E. Rees Green Outside, Red Inside ~ How Environmentalism is Following the Same Path of Communism Ugo Bardi A Reality Check on Our 'Energy Transition' Andrew Nikiforuk Critical Metals and the Side Effects of Electrification Bart Hawkins Kreps What's the Real Problem? And Can We Do Anything About It? William E. Rees Love Is Our Only Hope: How Storytelling Can Lead Us Home Cara Judea Alhadeff Envisioning a Sustainable Socioecological Future, Part 3 Clifton Ware Envisioning a Sustainable Socioecological Future, Part 4 Clifton Ware Bringing About the Bioeconomy Nolan Monaghan To Confront Power, One Must First Name It: Neoliberalism and the Sustainability Crisis Kurt Cobb Jimmy Carter ~ America's 'Worst President' and Finest Leader John Meyer America is Dead. Long Live Gaia! Tom Ellis Beyond the Ideological Echo Chamber: A Call for Intellectual Adaptability in Times of Transformation James Magnus-Johnston Three-quarters of the World's Land is Drying Out, 'Redefining Life on Earth' Ayurella Horn-Muller Los Angeles Wildfires: True Causes & Solutions Hart Hagan Rethinking Energy, Productivity, and the Illusion of Endless Growth Art Berman The Trump Administration's Agenda and the Likely Economic and Financial Consequences Rodrigue Tremblay Pope Francis Still Advocates for Degrowth Oscar Krüger Fighting Back for the Earth Sandy Irvine From an Eco-spiritual Perspective, Nature Is More than a Material Reality Michel Maxime Egger The Biggest, Oldest Economy in the World Is Burning George Tsakraklides Beyond Essentialism: Redefining the Gender-Environment Nexus Sharon Sarah Thawaney Christianity and Hope ~ When the Pope Does Hopium, What Do the Mystics Do? Jem Bendell Significant Research and Forthcoming Events The Uncertain Future of Oil: Energy Poverty, Depletion, and 'Green' Ambitions Nate Hagens, The Great Simplification #161 with Scott Tinker, 29 January 2025 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) World Economic Situation and Prospects 2025 Department of Economic and Social Affairs Economic Analysis United Nations, 30 December 2024 LINK Sustainability Trends for 2025 A decade on from the 2025 Paris Agreement, what trends are shaping the sustainability landscape and investment opportunities for the year ahead? The Economist, 9 January 2025 LINK Improving Calculations of Energy Return on Investment Charles A. S. Hall & Graham Palmer, Nature Energy, 10 January 2025 LINK Unravelling Connections: Energy, Economic Growth, and Decoupling Through a Historical Lens Graham Palmer & Joshua Floyd, New Political Economy, 17 January 2025 LINK A New Earth Synthesis: Bridging Pluralistic Metaphysics With Radical Sustainability Megan K. Seibert, The REAL Green New Deal Project, 17 January 2025 LINK Post-Growth: The Science of Wellbeing Within Planetary Boundaries Giorgos Kallis et al, The Lancet Planetary Health, Volume 9, Issue 1, January 2025 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 Theology & Integral Ecology: New Approaches to our Planetary Crisis Laudato Si' Research Institute Oxford University, UK, 24-25 April 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 Leveraging Ecological Economics to Advance the Sustainability Transition University of Pisa, Italy ~ 7-12 July 2025 Conference Website The 11th World Sustainability Forum ~ Sustainable and Resilient Cities World Sustainability Forum 2–3 October 2025, Barcelona, Spain Conference Website |Back to Outline| LINK TO THE CURRENT ISSUE          LINK TO THE HOME PAGE

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