Mother Pelican ~ August 2025

[Luis Gutierrez]

Mother Pelican A Journal of Solidarity and Sustainability Vol. 21, No. 8, August 2025 Integral Renewal of Human Agency One Sacred Community Mary Southard CSJ Ministry of the Arts * 2025 * 10th Anniversary of Laudato Si' on Care of the Planet and Integral Ecology and 5th Anniversary of Fratelli Tutti on Solidarity and Integral Human Development Laudate Deum A Last Call for the Planet BOOK LAUNCH at the Laudato Si’ Research Institute, Oxford, 17 June 2025 Pro Custodia Creationis For the Care of Creation Pope Leo, 9 July 2025 Contemplative gaze? What about action? Is anyone listening? Is anyone acting? PATRIARCHY is a deeply ingrained gender ideology. There can be no integral human development as long as religious patriarchy lurks in the collective unconscious. For 1.4B Catholics, 1 November 2025 will mark the 75th Anniversary of the dogma of the ASSUMPTION of the Virgin Mary. This would be a good time to transcend priestly patriarchy. CONTENTS Significant Research and Forthcoming Events What Energy Transition? William E. Rees Sankofa Part One – History's Most Challenging Moments Nick King Sankofa Part Two – Pathways, Lessons, and Challenges for the Future Nick King Envisioning an Intentional Socio-ecological Community Clifton Ware The Law that Can't Be Broken William E. Rees The Debt Bomb Art Berman Western Technology and the Rediscovery of Indigenous Wisdom Joseph Isidore Fernando Demystifying Degrowth Barbara Williams A Distracted World Marches Steadily Towards Catastrophe Julian Cribb Back to the Führer? Steve Burgess Donald Trump's Autocratic One-Man Regime is Doomed to Failure, but Not Before a Lot of Chaos and Destruction Rodrigue Tremblay Reclaiming Energy, Reimagining Power: Building Energy Futures from Below Madhuresh Kumar No Steady State Economy with Global South in Debt Crisis Alix Underwood Illegitimate Power, Illegitimate Violence: How Nations Are Built on the Backs of Disenfranchised Children Carter Dillard and Zahara Nabakooza Robert's Paradigm ~ The Politics of Economic Contraction Tim Morgan Dissecting An Economic Parasite: The Story of the Greatest Fraud on Earth George Tsakraklides Reality Blindness ~ The Greatest Threat to Our Civilization Art Berman Can We Stop the Wave of Violence? Ugo Bardi Introducing the Natural Resources and Electricity Cap-and-Trade Act David Shreve Bottom-Up or Top-Down: How to Degrow the Economy Vlad Bunea Why We Need a Solidarity Economy Now Rick Wilson Trump's Logging Push Thrusts a Dagger at the Heart of Wilderness Ted Williams The Invention of Gender Roles: Division by Design Kevin R. Nelson I'm Still Waiting for the US Church to Have an 'Ecological Conversion' Michael Wright Supplement ~ Meditations on Man and Woman, Humanity and Nature Supplement ~ Dynamics of Growth, De-Growth, and Post-Growth There is an annotated archive with links to all articles published since May 2005. Human development in harmony with nature is the existential challenge of our time. The mission of this journal is to foster human development within an integral ecology. You are invited to submit comments, suggestions, and articles for publication. Deadline is the 15th of the month to be considered for the following month.

Sincerely,

Luis

Luis T. Gutiérrez

Editor, Mother Pelican Journal of Solidarity and Sustainability