Mother Pelican: April 2026

‘We will go into the future as a sacred community, or we shall perish in the desert.’ Thomas Berry 1988 in ‘The Dream of the Earth’.  Approaching Easter in the Context of These Pertinent Explorations………… Scan this range of potential action in the context of Berry’s lead in perceiving theology as ecology.   Please feed your response to this richly varied network.
Peter

———- Forwarded message ———
From: Luis Gutierrez <the.pelican.web@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2026 at 05:02
Subject: Mother Pelican ~ April 2026
To: solidarity-sustainability group <solidarity-sustainability@googlegroups.com>

Mother Pelican
A Journal of Solidarity and Sustainability

Vol. 22, No. 4, April 2026
The Ecology of War
Wars destroy the integrity of the biosphere and reveal the fragility of globalized supply chains.
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:

‘Silent Victim’? Interrogating the Ecological Implications of War – Robert Mizo

‘Civilization’ and the Human Maladaptation Syndrome – William E. Rees

The Biophysical Pyramid – Nate Hagens

The Consumption Pyramid – Nate Hagens

A New Explanation for Tariffs and Bombings ~ The Underlying Problems are Energy-related – Gail Tverberg

Sustainable Protein: From Natural Flows to Human-Engineered Shortcuts
– Narasimha Reddy Donthi

Peak Food: Is the Human Population Going to Collapse? – Ugo Bardi

The Abyss of Civilization ~ What We Must Recover As We Fight Back – Kevin R. Nelson


JUDGING:

ENERGY DATA: Global Primary Energy Consumption by Source

Spaceship Earth ~ How Size, Scope, Scale, and Speed Affects Socio-Ecological Overshoot – Clifton Ware

Selling Off Public Lands: The Push to Privatize a Public Treasure – Kirsten Stade

How Empires Turn Cruel Before They Die – Ugo Bardi

The Last Empire: Why the Trump-Netanyahu War Signals the Fall of a Civilization
Nafeez M. Ahme


Is the Hormuz Chokehold a Foretaste of Peak Oil? – Chris Rhodes

Why Is Overshoot a Predicament and Not a Problem? – Erik Michaels

The Whole Food System Must Be Converted – Not Just the Farming System
– Gunnar Rundgren

The Fire We Feed: Rethinking Food, Population, and Prosperity on a Finite Planet
– Steve Salmony


ACTING:

Society on Strike: A Last Defense Against Tyranny? – Jeremy Brecher

Enhancing Artificial Intelligence with Ecological Wisdom – Barbara Williams

Where Do We Go From Here? – Keith Jeff

Confronting Patriarchy, Pronatalism, and Population Denial – Robert Jensen

The Most Appropriate Response to Falling Birthrates? Embrace Them – Nandita Bajaj

There Is Power in the Word ‘Patriarchy’ ~ We Need to Start Using It – Roberta W. Francis

Religious Traditions and Fertility: A Connection Rooted in Patriarchy – Kirsten Stade

Machiavelli ~ The First Modern Political Theologian? – Maddie Shorman

SUPPLEMENTS
Human Ecology, Theological Anthropology, and Religious Patriarchy
Global Dynamics of Growth, De-Growth, and Post-Growth

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 the limits of 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,
LuisLuis T. Gutiérrez, PhD
Editor, Mother Pelican Journal of Solidarity and Sustainability