Mother Pelican ~ November 2025

[Luis Gutierrez]

Mother Pelican A Journal of Solidarity and Sustainability Vol. 21, No. 11, November 2025 Human Agency & Political Ecology Practice nonviolence, responsible parenthood, minimal consumption, energy conservation, social and political engagement. "We are not isolated individuals. We are cells in the body of humanity, and what we do to one another we do to ourselves. The new story is one of interdependence, shared purpose, and sacred relationship with all Life." — Nancy Roof, Kosmos Journal (1929-2025) 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. Manifesto for Earth CONTENTS Significant Research and Forthcoming Events Jane Goodall, the Gentle Disrupter Whose Research on Chimpanzees Redefined What It Meant to Be Human Mireya Mayor Rachel Carson's Warning Still Echoes: 63 Years After Silent Spring Terran Fielder Our Social-Ecological Predicament: A Retrospective Clifton Ware Peak Oil for Gen Z ~ Seven Questions and Answers for a New Generation Richard Heinberg Fatal Delusions and the Curse of 'Maximum Power' William E. Rees What Has Gone Wrong With the Economy? Can It Be Fixed? Gail Tverberg What Do We Really Need? Eliza Daley The Outrageously Absurd Ridiculousness of Sustainability Management Cara Judea Alhadeff Why Revolutions Happen, Why They Don't, And Why They Should George Tsakraklides Putting It Together ~ Part Two: The Fight for Shrinking Resources Tim Morgan Book Review of Ecosystems as Models for Restoring Our Economies to a Sustainable State Luis T. Gutiérrez Systems Mindset and the Epidemic of Disconnected Narrow Analyses Tom Murphy The Rise of Religion and Transcendence Kevin R. Nelson Socio-Ecological Polarization and Our Two-Part Brains Clifton Ware Trump's War on America Chris Hedges Trump Cuts to EPA Far Deeper than Previously Disclosed Elizabeth Blum & Chris Sellers 'Newspeak' Comes to the Energy Department Kurt Cobb Who's to Blame? Political Action, Personal Accountability, and Human Nature Robert Jensen Can Resource Depletion Induce a Financial Cash? Eliza Daley A Bolt From the Blue ~ The Metaphysics of Evolution Art Berman Toward a New Common Sense of Abundance Colin Greer & Eric Laursen Why We Need a Solidarity Economy Now Rick Wilson Gratitude in the Great Unraveling Richard Heinberg How to Build a Closer Connection With the Living World Around You Bridget A. Lyons 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

Luis T. Gutiérrez, PhD

Editor, Mother Pelican Journal of Solidarity and Sustainability