Mother Pelican
A Journal of Solidarity and Sustainability

Vol. 22, No. 11, November 2026 Luis T. Gutiérrez, Editor

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Adaptability of Human Communities Can citizens and politicians ever come to understand that endless growth in a finite planet is a delusion? Can human institutions adapt to the end of growth and the transition to de-growth and post-growth? Can human communities adapt peacefully when the current, globalized industrial infrastructure significantly deteriorates under excessive load and commodity supply chains are disrupted? CLICK TO ENLARGE RECONSIDERING LIMITS TO GROWTH This edition includes several articles on critical issues of social and ecological justice, and links to other significant publications and supplementary materials. The sequence of articles follows the see ~ judge ~ act pattern (with some overlaps). 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 and the culture of power prevails. Can most humans adapt to supply constraints? Peacefully? SEEING Critical Review and Spiritual Dimension of the October Issue Luis Antonio González Santos Everything Begins with a Choice David Andersson What Can the Degrowth Movement Say to Young People? Margarita Mediavilla Ecomodernism and the Illusion That We Are Separate From Nature Art Berman Oil, War, and the Fate of Industrial Societies Richard Heinberg Oil Is Not the Devil ~ We Just Don't Want to See What We're Made Of Marcos Rupérez Cerqueda A New Ancestral Migration ~ From Forced Movement to a Shared Future Steven Charleston The Animal Holding the Bottle ~ Why We Cannot Uninvent Technology—or Ourselves Lyle Lewis JUDGING Seems We Know How to Fix Global Heating ~ And What We 'Know' Will Kill Us William E. Rees Humans as Planetary Parasites ~ Can We Do Anything About It? William E. Rees Killing the Planet to Save It Joshua Frank Debt-Driven Economic Growth and the Greenwashing of Planetary Collapse: Why Official Climate and Biodiversity Plans Fail Michael Seebeck Governments Know How Dangerous Climate Collapse Is. Why Aren't They Telling Us? Julian Cribb Material Insecurity and the Foundations of Democratic Participation Sandra Ericson The Greatest Scam in History: Money Creation by Banks Ted Trainer Debunking the Growth Credentials of Neoliberalism ~ The Policy Bias of Flawed Statistics Tim Morgan Human Time in Deep Time ~ Parts 1 & 2 Clifton Ware ACTING Setting Limits—The Wisdom of "Enough" and Wendell Berry Clifton Ware Navigating the Great Unraveling: How Communities Are Building Place‑based Resilience Chuck Collins & Tristan Roberts Decent People, Indecent System: Turning the Dials Back on Psychopathy Nate Hagens The Influence of Psychopaths: Why Humans Are Better Than We Think Nate Hagens The Trump Economy: AI Bubble and Beyond Dean Baker Toward an Ecocivilization Jeremy Lent Magnifica Humanitas: Political Pretense or Moral Judgment? T. Patrick Hill Technocracy, Political Theology, and Democratic Threat Evan Marsolek CONNECTIONS 2026 World Population Data Sheet & Explorer Population Reference Bureau From Concept to Policy: A Systematic Review of Degrowth Economic Policies and Indicators Jelena Grubor Stefanović ISO 9001:2026 Quality Management Systems International Standards Organization (ISO) ISO 14001:2026 Environmental Management Systems International Standards Organization (ISO) A Time of Great Consequence: A Manifesto for Bridging Knowledge and Action Bridges UNESCO Environment, Climate, and International Relations Raul Pacheco-Vega A Social and Solidarity Economy Network's Evolution on Sustainability Discourses Jon Ruiz-de-Galarreta et al Global Population Crisis Scenarios Predicted by a General Nonlinear Dynamical Model Alessio Zaccone & Kostya Trachenko The Appeal and Futile Quest for Escalation Dominance Herbert Wulf The Case for AI Degrowth Mathias Schmelzer & Steffen Lange The Collapse of Modern Techno-industrial Civilization William E. Rees Psychopathic Selection Hypothesis (PSH) ~ The Evolutionary Problems of Symbolic Systems Greg Elliott SUPPLEMENTS 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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