As always, comments on any article that stands out for you are welcome. Peter

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From: Luis Gutierrez <the.pelican.web@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 1 May 2026 at 04:47
Subject: Mother Pelican ~ May 2026
To: solidarity-sustainability group <solidarity-sustainability@googlegroups.com>

Mother Pelican
A Journal of Solidarity and SustainabilityVol. 22, No. 5, May 2026

The Growth & Degrowth Continuum
The emergence of a new, socially cohesive and ecologically sustainable civilization,
is contingent on abiding by the Golden Rule.

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
Art by Helen Elwes

A New Definition of Global Overpopulation ~ Explained and Applied
Philip Cafaro

Ecological Footprint Analysis Grew from a Boy’s Contemplation of “Soil and Sun”
Robert Jensen

Debates on Degrowth: What Drives Us to Keep Growing?
Margarita Mediavilla

Game of Drones: The New World Disorder
Art Berman

Losing the Iran War May Be the Best Outcome for the World
Gail Tverberg

The Coupling of Third Places and Climate Change
Michael D. Briscoe & Mary C. Sanchez

Oil 101 ~ What You Actually Need to Know About Oil
Nate Hagens

Oil 201: What Happens When the Oil Stops Flowing
Nate Hagens

JUDGING

Future Sustainability According to Pro-Growth Paradigms
Clifton Ware

Why Is Donald Trump Destabilizing the Global Economy?
Rodrigue Tremblay

Blinded by the Light: Techno-Optimism in Overshoot
David Shreve

The Thermodynamic Blind Spot: Why ‘Peak Oil’ Failed, and Why We Are Finally at the Singularity
Steven J. Newbury

The Psychology of Our Strange Overpopulation Taboo
Miriam J. Voran

Mything Out on ‘Sustainable Development’ — Why It Ain’t Happening, and Where to Go from Here
William E. Rees

Is Limiting Access to Food an Acceptable Way to Slow Population Growth?
Richard Grossman

Why We Need a Life-Based Paradigm Instead of the Growth Paradigm
Mike Nickerson

ACTING

When Limits Turn Violent: The Missing Pedagogy
Luis Antonio González Santos

There’s No Single Path Through Collapse ~ It Spans Multiple Systems and Perspectives
Juan Pablo Quiñonez

The Missing “How”: Why Humanity Knows the Problem But Cannot Change Course
Gregg Lavoie

Not Just an Ally: Radical Feminism for Men ~ Part 1 of 5
Robert Jensen

Women’s Leadership and Ecofeminism in the Metacrisis
Jem Bendell

Beyond Catholic Social Teaching? Resources for a Catholic Political Theology
Samuel Huard & Jacques Linder

Fragile Grammar: Natural Law and the Discipline of Authority After Catholic Social Teaching’s Universalizing Turn
Solomon Parditey

Vulnerability as Witness: Pentecostal Flesh and the Decolonial Renewal of Catholic Political Theology
Kyong-Jin Lee

Toward a New Historical-Ecological Praxis of Degrowth
Alex Mikulich

The Inevitable Collision of Global Catholicism and the American Empire
Shaun Blanchard

The Crisis of Globalization and the Search for Alternatives
Ashish Kothari

SUPPLEMENTS

Human Ecology, Theological Anthropology, and Religious PatriarchyGlobal 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
Luis T. Gutiérrez, PhDEditor, Mother Pelican Journal of Solidarity and Sustainability