Mother Pelican Vol. 21, No. 7, July 2025 Deep Renewal of Human Relations One Sacred Community , Mary Southard CSJ, Ministry of the Arts 10th Anniversary of Laudato Si’ 5th Anniversary of Fratelli Tutti CONTENTS Significant Research and Forthcoming Events Why Every Student Needs Human Ecology Education Now – Sandra EricsonEconomic Growth Is the Wrong Metric for Our Time – Kirsten Stade & Alan WareA Dead World, Plastic-Wrapped to Preserve Freshness – Richard HeinbergWhat Level of Consumption is Sustainable? Measuring Consumption in Terms of Sufficiency – Clifton WareEconomic Contraction, Coming Right Up – Gail TverbergToward an Eco-Social Contract for Regenerative Futures – Fan YangWars Cause Widespread Pollution and Environmental Damage – Richard Marcantonio & Josefina Echavarría ÁlvarezThe Complexity Trap: Abundance, AI, and the Fallacy of Misplaced Concreteness – Art BermanImmigration is a Mirror of National Disintegration – Art BermanAlberto Brandolini and Mark Twain Issue a Warning About Trump – John Allen PaulosBuilding Inspiring Alternatives Is Necessary to Counter Authoritarianism – Barbara PetersonGlobal Deterioration of Workers’ Rights—Including in the US Under Trump – Eloise GoldsmithFactory Farms and the Next Pandemic: How Industrial Animal Agriculture Fuels Global Health Threats – Alex Crisp Energy and Debt ~ How Does Energy and Debt Affect Economic Growth? – Gunnar RundgrenAI Utopia, AI Apocalypse, and AI Reality – Richard HeinbergAmerican Dictatorship: The Homegrown Edition – George TsakraklidesTo King or Not to King… Are We Seriously Asking this Question? – Alex LeffOnly the Village Can Save Us ~ Here’s Why – Ted TrainerHumanity and Technology – Gregg LavoieThe End of the Consumer Society and the Militarization of the Economy – Ugo BardiA World Without iPhones? Who Can Even Imagine It Any More? – Frida BerriganHow Trump Promotes a Radical, Unscientific Theory About Sex and Gender in the Name of Opposing ‘Gender Ideology Extremism’ – Ina SeethalerWomen, Water, and the Weight of Sustainability – Kumbirai Thierry NhamoLiving as One’s Neighbor in a Time of Social Divide: What Can the Trinitarian God Teach Us? – Simon Mary AihiokhaiSupplement ~ Meditations on Man and Woman, Humanity and Nature Supplement ~ Dynamics of Growth, De-Growth, and Post-Growth annotated archive
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