Mother Pelican
A Journal of Solidarity and Sustainability

Vol. 21, No. 7, July 2025 Luis T. Gutiérrez, Editor

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Deep Renewal of Human Relations "Human development, if not engendered, is endangered." UN HDR 1995 11 July 2025 WORLD POPULATION DAY 8.2 billion and counting The Patriarchs: How Men Came to Rule Nandita Bajaj & Angela Saini, Population Balance One Sacred Community Mary Southard CSJ Ministry of the Arts 10th Anniversary of Laudato Si' on Care of the Planet and Integral Ecology 5th Anniversary of Fratelli Tutti on Solidarity and Integral Human Development PATRIARCHY is a deeply ingrained gender ideology.              There can be no deep renewal of human relations as long as RELIGIOUS PATRIARCHY lurks in the collective unconscious. EXAMPLE The Creation of Adam Sistine Chapel Vatican City Wikimedia Commons CARTOON Patriarchal Divinity David Hayward ANIMATION Patriarchal Ecology Vincenzo Fagnani CONTENTS Significant Research and Forthcoming Events Why Every Student Needs Human Ecology Education Now Sandra Ericson Economic Growth Is the Wrong Metric for Our Time Kirsten Stade & Alan Ware A Dead World, Plastic-Wrapped to Preserve Freshness Richard Heinberg What Level of Consumption is Sustainable? Measuring Consumption in Terms of Sufficiency Clifton Ware Economic Contraction, Coming Right Up Gail Tverberg Toward an Eco-Social Contract for Regenerative Futures Fan Yang Wars Cause Widespread Pollution and Environmental Damage Richard Marcantonio & Josefina Echavarría Álvarez The Complexity Trap: Abundance, AI, and the Fallacy of Misplaced Concreteness Art Berman Immigration is a Mirror of National Disintegration Art Berman Alberto Brandolini and Mark Twain Issue a Warning About Trump John Allen Paulos Building Inspiring Alternatives Is Necessary to Counter Authoritarianism Barbara Peterson Global Deterioration of Workers' Rights—Including in the US Under Trump Eloise Goldsmith Factory Farms and the Next Pandemic: How Industrial Animal Agriculture Fuels Global Health Threats Alex Crisp Energy and Debt ~ How Does Energy and Debt Affect Economic Growth? Gunnar Rundgren AI Utopia, AI Apocalypse, and AI Reality Richard Heinberg American Dictatorship: The Homegrown Edition George Tsakraklides To King or Not to King… Are We Seriously Asking this Question? Alex Leff Only the Village Can Save Us ~ Here's Why Ted Trainer Humanity and Technology Gregg Lavoie The End of the Consumer Society and the Militarization of the Economy Ugo Bardi A World Without iPhones? Who Can Even Imagine It Any More? Frida Berrigan How Trump Promotes a Radical, Unscientific Theory About Sex and Gender in the Name of Opposing 'Gender Ideology Extremism' Ina Seethaler Women, Water, and the Weight of Sustainability Kumbirai Thierry Nhamo Living as One's Neighbor in a Time of Social Divide: What Can the Trinitarian God Teach Us? Simon Mary Aihiokhai Supplement ~ Meditations on Man and Woman, Humanity and Nature Supplement ~ Dynamics of Growth, De-Growth, and Post-Growth Significant Research and Forthcoming Events Power Shift: Shattering Illusions about the Energy Transition and Our Future The Energy Transition and Our Future Nate Hagens, The Great Simplification, 3 June 2025 Why "Cheaper" Wind and Solar Raise Costs ~ Part I: The Fat Tail Problem Russ Schussler, Climate Etc., 13 March 2025 Why "Cheaper" Wind and Solar Raise Costs ~ Part II: The Hidden Costs of Residential Solar Russ Schussler, Climate Etc., 22 May 2025 Why "Cheaper" Wind and Solar Raise Costs ~ Part III: The Problem with Power Markets Russ Schussler, Climate Etc., 28 May 2025 Tipping Points Toward Sustainability: The Role of Industrial Ecology Claudia R. Binder et al, Journal of Industrial Ecology, 20 March 2025 Earth's Energy Imbalance More Than Doubled in Recent Decades Thorsten Mauritsen et al, AGU Advances, 10 May 2025 Exploring Pathways for World Development Within Planetary Boundaries Detlef P. van Vuuren et al, Nature, 14 May 2025 Six Actions for Ecologists in Times of Planetary Crisis Nathalie Pettorelli et al, Nature Ecology & Evolution, 6 June 2025 Rethinking Cities: A Systems Approach to Sustainable Urban Futures Planetary Emergency Impact Hub, Club of Rome, 18 June 2025 Global Environment Outlook (GEO-7) The GEO-7 Journey, UN Environment Programme, 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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