Mother Pelican
A Journal of Solidarity and Sustainability

Vol. 21, No. 3, March 2025 Luis T. Gutiérrez, Editor

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MAGA ~ The Climax of Patriarchal Civilization The MAGA slogan ("Make America Great Again") signals the climax of the patriarchal techno-industrial civilization on a global scale. It is a global issue, not just an American issue. Is the ensuing confusion and chaos part of some strategy pursuant to the common good? The "America First" ideology may lead to a crash of the global economy and a gigantic financial bailout for the benefit of the 1% at the expense of humanity and the biosphere. It is impossible for the USA to flourish in isolation from the community of nations and the entire community of creation. Project 2025 is the blueprint for this geopolitical madness. The antidotes in the short term are human resilience and nonviolent resistance. In the long term, the path to a sustainable future entails population and consumption degrowth, care of the global commons, and global solidarity. How? Responsible parenthood, dispersal away from large cities, lifestyle simplification. If adaptation is not voluntary, it will happen involuntarily via authoritarian edicts and brute force, because "time is greater than space" but it is evident that the planet is getting crowded. CONTENTS Significant Research and Forthcoming Events Are We Too Smart for Our Own Good? Richard Heinberg Trump's Global Gag Rule is the Logical Endpoint of the Pronatalist Trend Kirsten Stade Rethinking Rank and Privilege in Human Societies Carole Crumley Trump Is Weaponizing the Brute Power of an Imperial Presidency Daniel Drache & Marc Froese The World According to a Member of the Faceless Hoard: Reflections on Collapse, Resistance, and Art Gestur Stefánsson The Art of the Self-Serving Deal Andrew Hamilton Envisioning a Sustainable Socioecological Future, Part 5 Clifton Ware Envisioning a Sustainable Socioecological Future, Part 6 Clifton Ware Trump's Bold Energy Gamble: It's Not What You Think Art Berman What Will Energy Dominance Be Used For? Art Berman Putting Nature at the Center Richard Heinberg Magaism, Revolution, and the Collapse of the American Elite Ugo Bardi Project 2025 and the Siege of Gaza ~ Distant from Christian Social Doctrine Alberto Muller Downsizing the U. S. Government This Way Will Destroy Its Effectiveness Without Increasing Its Efficiency Kurt Cobb We Have Entered the Era of 'Global Boiling'—Marine Wildlife, Ecosystems, and Economies Are Being Devastated David Hastings Are We Overestimating or Underestimating Climate Change and Other Nature-driven Risks? Jack Santa Barbara Donald Trump's Government is Oligarchic, Dysfunctional, and Disruptive to the Global Economy Rodrigue Tremblay The Situation ~ And Why We Can't Fix It Ted Trainer How Trophic Cascades Devastate Ecosystems and Endanger Human Health Leslie Alan Horvitz Extractivism and Resistance: Gendered Perspectives on the Global Resource Economy Brianna Nicole Hernandez In the Age of Infinite Consumer Choice, the Only Choice is Collapse George Tsakraklides Challenging My Own Lens: Epistemic Reflections on Gender, Caste, and Conservation Leadership in Central Himalayas Kavya Pandey Grounding the Mind/Body/Spirit for Faithful Resistance Against Hopelessness Bunmi Adegbola Significant Research and Forthcoming Events Our obsolescent brains ~ The climate, economics, and overshoot Canadian Association for the Club of Rome, 5 February 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) 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 Cohabitability ~ Ecologies and Technologies of Living on Earth Czech Academy of Sciences 8–10 October 2025, Prague, Czech Republic Conference Website |Back to Outline| LINK TO THE CURRENT ISSUE          LINK TO THE HOME PAGE

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