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From: Luis Gutierrez <the.pelican.web@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2025 at 05:05
Subject: Mother Pelican ~ December 2025
To: solidarity-sustainability group <solidarity-sustainability@googlegroups.com>

Mother Pelican A Journal of Solidarity and Sustainability Vol. 21, No. 12, December 2025 Deep Renewal of Human Nature Merry Christmas 2025.  Peace be with you all. Peace with social and ecological justice. There can be no peace without social and ecological justice. Hegemonic empires come and go. Peace cannot be bought with money and weapons. It cannot be enforced by bullets and missiles. Peace with solidarity and sustainability cannot be attained without a deep renewal of humanity. THE NATIVITY Bethlehem of Judea,ca. 4 BCE Let us pray for peace with social and ecological justice. Let us pray for doctrinal development to transcend patriarchal theologies in all religious traditions. JUST TRANSITION CONTENTS Only Our Children Will Cross the River – Art Berman The Super Predator: How Humans Became the Animal Kingdom’s Most Feared Hunters – John Divinagracia Socio-Ecological Polarization and Dark Triad Personalities – Clifton War The New Nuclear Fever, Debunked – Andrew Nikiforuk Engineering Infinite and Eternal Extinction: Review of More and More and More and More Everything Forever – Christine Dann Labour, Capital, and the ‘Free Gifts of Nature’ – Bart Hawkins Kreps Carbon Footprint Tramples Planetary Boundaries – Amelia Jaycen A Voice Crying in the Desert: Ignoring the Poisoning Effect of CO2 – Ugo Bardi & Olle Hollertz Homo Sapiens: Inherently Unsustainable, But Do We Have to Be that Way? – William E. Rees Land Degradation Threatens Billions of Lives Worldwide – Brett Wilkins An Introduction to Ecofeminist Thought for International Relations Students – Vivian Ike What Futures Are Possible? – Richard Heinberg The Future Requires a Politics of Relationality – David Bollier Beyond AI Futurism: A Socio-Ecological Vision for AI – Jonah Schwope & Lena Schröder Carbon Offsets Are Failing. Can a New Plan Save the Rainforests? – Fred Pearce Tehran Contemplates “Evacuation” As Many Cities Across the Globe Face Water Dilemmas – Kurt Cobb Linking Climate and Gender Justice: Lessons from Bangladesh – Meghna Guhathakurta & Vinod Koshti Dear AI, It Never Wasn’t an “Intelligence Economy” – Brian Czech Two Birds, One Scone: Collaboration in Rights of Nature and Ecocide Jurisprudence – Chiara Grimes Why the Village Is the Only Solution to the Global Predicament – Ted Trainer Communities Cultivating a Future Where Technology and Social and Environmental Care Can Flourish – Florencia Roveri Redefining Sustainability for a Turbulent 21st Century – John H. Giordanengo The Long Twilight of Growth – Art Berman Reimagining Ourselves at the End of Our World: Kinship, Interconnection, and Spirituality in the Metacrisis – Nate Hagens & Samantha Sweetwater SEE ALSO: Significant Research and Forthcoming Events Supplement ~ Meditations on Man and Woman, Humanity and Nature Supplement ~ 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, Luis T. Gutiérrez, PhD Editor, Mother Pelican Journal of Solidarity and Sustainability