Mother Pelican
A Journal of Solidarity and Sustainability
Vol. 22, No. 3, March 2026
Discernment in the Era of Post-Truth
Human perception of reality is always subjective to some extent. Now, in the era of
the internet, social media, and AI, there is an added layer of potential misrepresentation.
How can we know that what we perceive to be true is actually true? Verify the sources.
Don't latch on to simplistic narratives. Be wary of technological miracles. Corroborate
the evidence in context. Validate via reason, experience, common sense, intuition.
Remember: Practically nothing is either/or. Practically everything is both/and.
In brief: "The color of truth is gray"
(André Gide, 1869-1951).
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
Welcome to Peak Population ~ Is Collapse Fungible?
Christopher Bystroff
The Empire Crumbles: Part I — The Big Picture
Richard Heinberg
The Empire Crumbles: Part II — Creative Dissidence and Mutual Aid
Richard Heinberg
The End of Population Growth: Reaching Humankind's Planetary Limits
Ugo Bardi
Fire Seeds: What Might Grow As the Old World Burns
Osprey Orielle Lake
Unrestricted Mining Is Destroying Communities and the Environment
Shay Cullen
The Western Mythos ~ Our Monster's Spawn: Part II – The Theological Architecture of Modernity
Kevin R. Nelson
It's Ecological Breakdown that Should Put Us on a War-footing
Caroline Lucas & Rupert Read
JUDGING
Spaceship Earth – A Metaphor for Our Planet and its Passenger-Caretakers
Clifton Ware
In Defense of a Basic Land Income
Manuel Casal Lodeiro
The End of Growth ~ A Compact Synopsis of Our Predicament
Tim Morgan
Online Retail as an Algorithmic Liturgy within Productivist Capitalism
Gilles A. Paché
The Need for Careful Labelling ~ Is Trump a Fascist?
Sandy Irvine
An Abundance Trap: The Perverse Logic Driving Global Collapse
Steven Earl Salmony
Serpents, Raptors, and Other Liminal Beings: The Symbolic Decentering of Anthropocentrism
Francesca Romana Petroselli
Living in a World Without a Worldview
Art Berman
ACTING
Building a Better Future ~ A Manual for Living Sustainably on Earth
Gregg Lavoie
Focusing on Economic Size ~ GDP Is the Best Sustainability Indicator
John Mulrow
A Challenge to Growth ~ What Happens to the Savings from Sustainability Efforts?
John Mulrow
How Human Ecology Education Defuses the Roots of Terrorism
Sandra Ericson
A Primer For Paradigm Shift ~ Care for the Natural World and the Social Uplift of Communities
Jan Spencer
Fabricating Identity and Loyalty
Carl Southwell
Innovation in a Post-Growth Economy: Incentives Beyond the Profit Motive
Josephine Ewoma
Decolonizing Christian Kerygma
Raj Bharat Patta
SUPPLEMENTS
Human Ecology, Theological Anthropology, and Religious Patriarchy
Global 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.
