Mother Pelican + September 2011
Luis Gutierrez
Solidarity-Sustainability Group
Greetings!
The September 2011 issue of Mother Pelican has been posted:
Theme - The
Confluence of Gender Balance and Energy Balance
Summary
Energy balance is a non-negotiable requirement for a sustainable economy. Likewise, gender equality is crucial for a civilized transition to sustainability. That humanity must transition from fossil fuels to clean energy (and, more generally, from consumerism to sustainability) is no longer in doubt. The question now is whether the transition will be violent or peaceful - or at least civilized. It is argued that fostering gender balance in all roles of responsibility and authority is the best way to foster a civilized transition. Gender imbalance, with only (or even mostly) men making all key policy decisions, is biologically and psychologically bound to perpetuate the violence-prone patriarchal mentality of control and domination.
Most secular institutions worldwide already know by experience that gender balance mitigates violence and enhances capabilities for human development. Religious institutions that remain attached to theologically baseless patriarchal practices are doing a disservice to humanity by reinforcing resistance to gender equality and balance. The joint and fair resolution of gender balance and energy balance issues, which not insignificantly are emerging simultaneously at this point in human history, offers the best hope for a civilized transition to a sustainable world animated by solidarity, peace, and justice. It also offers the best hope for continuing progress in integral human development.
The
outline for this issue is
as follows:
Page 1. Editorial Essay ~ The
Confluence of Gender Balance and Energy Balance
Page 2. Globalization
and Integral Human Development,
by Eammon Keane
Page 3. Loss of
confidence in the current order &
Latin America's contribution to a
geosociety, by
Leonardo Boff
Page 4. A Convenient
Truth About Climate Change: Why Most
of the Major Powers Really Want Global
Warming, by
David Lempert and Hue Nhu Nguyen
Page 5. Sleeping with
the Enemy: Economists who side with
polluters, by
Mason Gaffney
Page 6. Are We
Entering an Era of Concatenated Global
Crises?, by
Duan Biggs et al.
Page 7. The
Patriarch's Nuts: Concerning the
Testicular Logic of Biblical Hebrew, by
Roland Boer
Page 8. Page 8. Toward a
Post-Growth Society, by
James Gustave Speth
Page 9. Gender
Equity in Islam - Part 4: The Legal/Political
Aspect, by Jamal Badawi
This issue also includes the following
supplements:
Supplement 1: Advances
in Sustainable Development
Supplement 2: Directory
of Sustainable Development Resources
Supplement 3: Strategies
for the Transition to Clean Energy
Supplement 4: Tactics
for the Transition to Clean Energy
Supplement 5: Status
of Gender Equality in Society
Supplement 6: Status of
Gender Equality in
Religion
Sincerely,
Luis
The Pelican Web of Solidarity and Sustainability
Mother Pelican: A Journal of Sustainable Human Development