Mother Pelican: June 2025

Another powerful collection. If you tackle any articles you feel are specifically pertinent in your work sphere, please do comment. Have a good summer…. Peter

Vol. 21, No. 6, June 2025

EARTH.LINK.gifHuman Renewal in a Shrinking Planet
10th Anniversary of Laudato Si’ on Care of the Planetand Integral Ecology
5th Anniversary of Fratelli Tutti on Solidarity and Integral Human Development

THERE CAN BE NO DEEP RENEWAL OF HUMAN RELATIONS UNDER RELIGIOUS PATRIARCHY
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CONTENTS
Significant Research and Forthcoming Events

Pope Francis and Laudato Si’: An Ecological Turning Point for the Catholic Church – Bernard Laurent

By Disaster or Design: A Post-Growth World Is Coming – Matt Orsagh

Post-Growth Future Visions, Part 1 ~ Undesirable Visions – Doo merism, Post-Doomerism, and CatastrophismPost-Growth Future Visions, Part 2 ~ Desirable and Potentially Sustainable Visions – Clifton Ware

Confronting Pronatalism is Essential for Reproductive Justice and Ecological Sustainability – Nandita Bajaj

Energy Transition: The End of an Idea – Chris Smaje

Toward Sustainable Economies ~ Capitalism, Degrowth, and the Steady State Economy – Anastasia Pseiridis

Business Administration in the Age of Overshoot – Trey Sutton

Hacking the Business Growth Imperative – Kali Young

Being a Good International Citizen in a Trumpian World – Gareth Evans

The Cherry Tree Dilemma: Mindfulness, Complexity, and Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) – Adrian Ayres Fisher

Pharaohs to AI: The Long Ascent of the Superorganism – Art Berman

The Virtual Goebbels of Social Media and the Potemkin Village that is the American Democracy – Christopher Bystroff

Technophilia: The Mental Illness Behind Civilizational Collapse – George Tsakraklides

Why None of These People Will Ever Talk to You About Overpopulation – George Tsakraklides

The Growing Complexity of Democratic Societies and Industrialized Economies: The Risk of a Vicious Cycle of Problems and Crises – Rodrigue Tremblay

Magical Thinking and the Consumerization of the Human Species – Dave Pollard

Signs of Collapse: How It Seems To Be Unfolding – Dave Pollard

Infrastructure Failure in America: Will We Find a Fix Before the Unimaginable Happens? – Kurt Cobb

Limits to Growth Was Right About Collapse – Andrew Curry

A Critique of the Apocalyptic Climate Narrative – Judith Curry and Harry DeAngelo

The Cross as Resistance, Solidarity, and the Triumph of Justice – Jasmine Devadason

Ecological Conversion as Political Resistance – Kumbirai Thierry Nhamo

Supplement ~ Meditations on Man and Woman, Humanity and NatureSupplement ~ Scenarios of the Transition from Growth to De-Growth and Post-Growth

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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