Mother Pelican: October 2025

Posted on by October 1, 2025
Mother Pelican
A Journal of Solidarity and SustainabilityVol. 21, No. 10, October 2025
The End of “Business As Usual”?
We are not living in an era of change. What we are experiencing is the end of an era.
The patriarchal phase of human history is passing away, and we have to make a choice.
The choice is between solidarity and sustainability, or domination and self-destruction.
It is time for a cultural revolution, from patriarchal domination to sustainable solidarity.
Speak up. Practice nonviolence. Stop buying nonessential things. Protest peacefully.

CONTENTS
Significant Research and Forthcoming Events

A 1972 Warning We Can No Longer Ignore – Adrian Drayton

A World on Fire ~ The Climate Crisis Accelerates – Clifton Ware

The Energy Transition That Never Was – Art Berman

Bioregioning Is Our Future – Richard Heinberg

A Global Brief on Textiles, Tariffs, and Unintended Impacts – John Giordanengo

Running Out of Resources? The Real Shortages Are Clean Air and Plastic-free Food – Anastasiia Tsybuliak

The Wider Benefits of Choosing Life Off the Grid – Ryan Mitchell

The Great CO2 Experiment. Will We Survive It? – Ugo Bardi

In the Age of the Great Meteorological Uncertainty, We Need A New Type of Climate Science – George Tsakraklides

Putting It Together ~ Part One: How the Economy Really Works – Tim Morgan

Fear of Humans – Salvador Herrando-Pérez

Is Propensity to Violence or Nonviolence Constitutive of Human Nature? – Joseph Isidore Fernando

The Myth of Managing the Biosphere – Kurt Cobb

‘Progressive Pronatalism’ Is an Oxymoron: How Arguments Buying Into the Low-Fertility Panic Fail Humanity – Nandita Bajaj

Pumpkinomics: Why It Is Better Than Economics – George Tsakraklides

Politics Disguised as Climate Science – Art Berman

Introducing the Sustainable Population and Immigration Act – Brian Czech

Patriarchal Hierarchy ~ The Worst Invention of Mankind – Eliza Daley

Clean Energy? Is There Such a Thing? – Eliza Daley

Can Authoritarians Solve Our Environmental Problems? – Kurt Cobb

Trump’s Revolution Has a Martyr – Andrew Nikiforuk

Since the COVID-19 Pandemic, Misogyny Has Become a Political Strategy – Brianna Wiens, Nick Ruest, and Shana MacDonald

The Love of Money at the Bitter Roots of Empire – Andrew Clark-Howard

Discipleship as Resistance: Disrupting the Traditional Family System – Arvind Theodore

Supplement ~ Meditations on Man and Woman, Humanity and Nature

Supplement ~ Dynamics of Growth, De-Growth, and Post-Growth

Plus:
One Sacred Community – Mary Southard CSJ – Ministry of the Arts

* 2025 * 10th Anniversary of Laudato Si’ on Care of the Planet and Integral Ecology and
5th Anniversary of Fratelli Tutti on Solidarity and Integral Human Development

PATRIARCHY is a deeply ingrained gender ideology with nefarious social and ecological repercussions. There can be no integral human development, and no integral ecology, as long as patriarchy and religious patriarchy lurk in the collective unconscious.

For 1.4B Catholics, 1 November 2025 will mark the 75th Anniversary of the dogma of the ASSUMPTION of Mary of Nazareth. This would be a good time to transcend OT priestly patriarchy.

What is degrowth?
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, Luis
Luis T. Gutiérrez
Editor, Mother Pelican Journal of Solidarity and Sustainability
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