Mother Pelican – February 2022

Posted on by May 17, 2022

Mother Pelican
A Journal of Solidarity and Sustainability
Vol. 18, No. 2, February 2022
Luis T. Gutiérrez, Editor

Ecological Overshoot Is Worsening
That the planet is in ecological overshoot is an undeniable reality. Overshoot is worsening because it is a function of overpopulation, overconsumption, and overtoxification, all of which keep increasing exponentially by our futile and unnatural attempt to “domesticate” nature. The ultimate cause of this existential threat is the myth of human supremacy. Further flourishing (perhaps even survival!) of the human species is contingent on ecological conversion, a radical shift in human priorities from growth and techno-patriarchal domination to seeking social justice and ecological sustainability. 

ARTICLES
Ecology? Look It Up! You’re Still Involved
– Rex Weyler
Interlude 1 ~ Blood Chocolate—A Call for Bioregionalism
– Cara Judea Alhadeff 
Protecting Half the Planet and Transforming Human Systems Are Complementary Goals
– Eileen Crist et al
Social Cohesion Is Vital, and We’re Losing It
– Richard Heinberg
Life in a Degrowth Economy and Why You’ll Love It
– Erin Remblance
We Are a House Divided, but Amazingly United
– Eliza Daley
The Age of Energy Disruptions: Learning to Use a Lot Less
– François-Xavier Chevallerau
Techno-utopia Unravelling: Why Complexity Is No Longer Solving Our Problems
– Kurt Cobb
The Unravelling Begins ~ The Energy Cost of Energy, the Reality of Scarcity, the Scarcity of Reality
– Tim Morgan
How the New Fascists Finally Won the Propaganda War
– Dave Pollard
No Future Under Plutocracy: Why Winning a Post-Growth Green New Deal Requires a Transition to Real Democracy
– Aaron Karp
Why the Internet Itself Is a Major Environmental Problem
– Robin Scher
Energy Reality for the United States of America
– Richard Heinberg
Hydrocarbons: Consume More to Produce Less
– Louis Delannoy
How to Build An Economy that Does Not Need to Grow: Ideas from System Dynamics
– Margarita Mediavilla
On Technology’s Past and Future
– Brian Tokar
Prolegomena to Christian Environmental Ethics ~ Part 3
– Walter Scott Stepanenko
Degrowth Is About Global Justice
– Jason Hickel
The Pro-Growth Demographic Dogma
– Joseph Chamie
Insights into the Interdependence of Growth, Structure, Size, and Resource Consumption of the Economy
– Carey W. King
2022: Energy Limits Are Likely to Push the World Economy into Recession
– Gail Tverberg
The Wonders of the Hydrogen Economy
– Erik Assadourian
Death by a Thousand Lies
– Dorothy Woodend
From Homo economicus to Homo ecologicus ~ Sequel 2 ~ Human Supremacy
– Luis T. Gutiérrez

ANNOUNCEMENT
Laudato Si’ Integral Ecology Collection Launch
Laudato Si’ Research Institute, Oxford University, 3 March 2022 
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