Mother Pelican ~ September 2025

[Luis Gutierrez]

Mother Pelican A Journal of Solidarity and Sustainability Vol. 21, No. 9, September 2025 Solidarity for Long-term Sustainability 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 FREE DOWNLOAD 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 Mary of Nazareth. This would be a good time to transcend CANON 1024. What is degrowth? CONTENTS Significant Research and Forthcoming Events Let's (Not) Choose Sides and Fight Richard Heinberg Human Ecology and the Law of Requisite Variety William E. Rees Twenty-four Reasons Why We Are Hooped ~ On Human Cognitive Deficiency William E. Rees A Little Learning (or Too Much Ignorance) Can Be a Dangerous Thing Clifton Ware Developing a "Big-Picture" Worldview Clifton Ware The Myth of Infinite Growth Kumbirai Thierry Nhamo The Global Environmental Crisis ~ What Does World Population Day Have to Do With It? Charles Knight Iceland's Renewable Dreams, Fossil Realities Art Berman 'New Era of Climate Accountability': ICJ Says Nations Have Legal Duty to Combat Planetary Crisis Jake Johnson Climate Reparations are Necessary but Not Sufficient: World Needs Less Growth & More Justice Kirsten Stade Some Thoughts on Humanity's Really Big Disease Bob Este The Hidden Cost of AI: How Energy-Hungry Algorithms Are Fueling the Climate Crisis Sharon Kumar The Coming Deconstruction of Global Money Tim Morgan Half of the Global Population Can't Afford Healthy Food Gunnar Rundgren The Dream That Humanity Is Unable To Wake Up From George Tsakraklides Greenwashing in the Amazon: Debunking False Green Solutions Mauricio López Tariffs vs. Tankers: Why Trump's Clash with India Misses the Real Energy Battlefield Art Berman Preparing for the Darkness and Holding the Light Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee Towards a Climate-Capable Democracy Gus Speth Drones of Change: The Rise of a Violence-Based Economy Ugo Bardi Is "Degrowth" a New Concept for You? Richard Grossman The Power to Resist Power: Reclaiming Reverse Dominance in a Post-hierarchical World Kasper Benjamin Reimer Bjørkskov The Annihilation of the Ontological Feminine Kevin R. Nelson Big Beautiful Barns Anna Bowden 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 the limits of 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