Mother Pelican
A Journal of Solidarity and Sustainability

Vol. 22, No. 6, June 2026 Luis T. Gutiérrez, Editor

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The Human Addiction to Fossil Fuels The future is unknown. The Growth & Degrowth Continuum is the best case scenario. The Strait of Hormuz chokehold is an alarm signal that humans have become addicted to fossil fuels. Fossil fuels supply 80% of the energy throughput required to support the current techno-industrial system. The other 20% comes from 'renewable' energy sources (solar, wind, others), which are not really renewable because fossil fuels are required for mining raw materials and manufacturing, installing, and maintaining the equipment. It is very doubtful that renewable energy technologies can ever support growing global consumption without fossil fuels. Therefore, a significant contraction of the human enterprise would be required to reduce dependency on fossil fuels. Else, resource depletion and planet toxification will continue, inexorably leading us to worldwide resource wars and a Seneca Cliff. This is the worst case scenario. This edition includes several articles on critical issues of social and ecological justice, and supplements on human relations and global transition scenarios. The sequence of articles follows the see ~ judge ~ act pattern (more or less, with some overlaps) and it is becoming increasingly clear that the forthcoming transition from growth to post-growth is not likely to be fair and peaceful if global population and consumption keep growing. Can most humans adapt to supply constraints? Peacefully? SEEING Global Human Population Pushing Earth Past Breaking Point Corey J. A. Bradshaw Hormuz Is Decapitating the Oil Age Nafeez Ahmed & Divyesh Desai Flat‑Earth Trump: Why the US President's Crisis‑resolution Methods Only Generate More Crises Hassan Fattahi America Has Plenty of Oil—Just Not the Right Kind Art Berman The 2026 Energy Crisis and Our Wile E. Coyote Moment Richard Heinberg The Roman Empire and the Western Empire: Collapsing Along Parallel Paths Ugo Bardi Oil 301: The World After Cheap Energy Nate Hagens Truth, Lies, and Loyalty in the Age of Trumpism Richard Heinberg JUDGING Sustainability According to De-Growth and Post-Growth Paradigms Clifton Ware The Environmental and Social Impacts of Fish Farming and Industrial Aquaculture Laura Lee Cascada The Costs of Renewable Energy Keith Akers Technical Issues With Renewables Keith Akers Agreement or Imposition? Rethinking "Forest School Agreements" and Our Relationship with Nature Nilgün Cevher-Kalburan "Democracy" Was Never Designed to Work — But Something Better Is Emerging Jeremy Lent Human Population Dynamics and the Myth of Human Exceptionalism Steve Salmony They First Make Mad ~ Stress and Grief at the End of Growth Tim Morgan ACTING The Development Trap ~ When Solutions Become the Problem Narasimha Reddy Donthi How the World Can Avoid Millions Going Hungry When Supply Chains Collapse Jasper Verschuur & Paul Behrens Caitlin Taylor: Building a 'Legible' Food System Robert Jensen Not Just an Ally: Radical Feminism for Men ~ Part 2 of 5 Robert Jensen The Healthy Masculine in the Metacrisis Jem Bendell How Human Ecology Shapes Social Democracy Sandra Ericson How Earth-Centered Education Helps Children Learn Through Nature, Play, and Relationship Peter Kindfield Faith Amidst Chaos in Today's World of Resource Wars Christy Randazzo "Everything in Common": Pentecost, Happy Bees, and A Remedy to the World's Grief Asia Lerner-Gay SUPPLEMENTS The Complementarian Imagination: Race, Gender, Exclusion, and Dominion Nick O'Brien Human Ecology, Theological Anthropology, and Religious Patriarchy Luis T. Gutiérrez Global Dynamics of Growth, De-Growth, and Post-Growth Luis T. Gutiérrez |Back to Contents| LINK TO THE CURRENT ISSUE          LINK TO THE HOME PAGE

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