Mother Pelican
A Journal of Solidarity and Sustainability

Vol. 22, No. 10, October 2026 Luis T. Gutiérrez, Editor

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Evolution of Human Institutions Can we and our institutions adapt to the end of growth and the transition to de-growth and post-growth? INFOGRAPHICS MARY, UNTIER OF KNOTS, PRAY FOR US 2026 WORLD POPULATION DATA SHEET & EXPLORER 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 The New Human David Andersson Beyond the Energy Transition: From a Culture of Extraction to a Culture of Regeneration Luis Antonio González Santos Who Will Code the Next Era? Accounting, Post-Growth, and the Struggle for Epistemic Sovereignty Luis Antonio González Santos The Entropy Fee: The Hidden Physical Cost of Technology Art Berman Humans' Predicament in Three Phrases ~ Why a Sustainable Future Requires Fewer and Less Robert Jensen How Did Hierarchical Power Societies Emerge? Chris Burcher Toward a Transpartisan Politics of Limits and Beauty John de Graaf Integral Human Development ~ A Vision of the Whole Person Matt Moran JUDGING Sacred Revolt ~ Why Reverence Should Precede Restraint Samuel Alexander The Invisible Systems Holding Industrial Civilization Together Elisabeth Robson The Evolution of Inverting Scarcities Tim Morgan The AI Boom Runs on an Even More Dangerous Machine (Part 1) Lynn Parramore The AI Boom Runs on an Even More Dangerous Machine (Part 2) Lynn Parramore Game Theory and Degrowth's Strategic Dilemma Samuel Alexander Why Humanity Must Unite Around Ecological Reality Gregg Lavoie When Pscyhopathic Traits Become Institutional Properties: The Symbolic Selection Mechanism of Institutional Mirroring Greg M. Elliott ACTING The Last Ship—An Anthropocene Odyssey, Part 1 Clifton Ware The Last Ship—An Anthropocene Odyssey, Part 2 Clifton Ware Cutting the Global Population in Half to Achieve Sustainability Philip Cafaro COP31 and the Himalayas: Protecting a Common Property the World Keeps Overlooking Narasimha Reddy Donthi Magnifica Humanitas ~ Beyond the "Planet of the Apes" Syndrome Joseph Borg Who Broke the World? The Villains We Choose and the Work They Give Us Nate Hagens The Benefits of Preparing for Collapse (Even If You Don't Think It's Likely) Jack Santa Barbara Technological Totalitarianism Elke Schwarz CONNECTIONS Energy, Surplus, and the Economic Process Giorgos Kallis et al Beyond Growth ~ The Natural Evolution of the Shrinking Economy Barry Cooper The Ecology of Exclusion: How Anglo-Male Cultural Logics Reproduce Unequal Leadership Progression Huong Thi Lan Nguyen & Suzanne Young Terra Incognita: The Economics of a Shrinking World Jesús Fernández-Villaverde & Patrick Norrick ECONOCLAST ~ Herman Daly and the Gospel of Growth John de Graaf The Himalayas Are Sending a Warning: A Scientific Call to Assess and Manage Every Ice-Pond and Cryospheric Risk Lenin Raghuvanshi Restoring Nature Is Our Only Climate Solution Richard Heinberg Why 'Sustainable Urban Development' Is an Oxymoron—The 2nd Law, Overshoot, and Cultural Dysfunction William E. Rees Why Community Matters When Preparing for the Great Unraveling Theresa Leisgang & Gerriet Schwen 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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