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    Small modular nuclear reactors are a dead end

    Originally published: Resilience on May 18, 2026 by Richard Heinberg (more by Resilience)  | (Posted May 19, 2026)

    The nuclear power industry is currently promoting designs for small modular reactors (SMRs) that will supposedly be cheaper, safer, and faster to build than older nuclear power plants. Bill Gates and Amazon are investing in the technology.

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    The future of forests

    Originally published: Resilience on March 6, 2026 by Richard Heinberg (more by Resilience)  | (Posted Mar 07, 2026)

    Our species’ origin and destiny are entangled with the roots and branches of trees.

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    One, two, … many Green New Deals: an ecosocialist roundtable

    Originally published: Resilience on February 26, 2019 by Carol Dansereau, John Foran, Ted Franklin, Brad Hornick, Sandra Lindberg and Jennifer Scarlott (more by Resilience)  | (Posted Feb 28, 2019)

    This is an essay in six voices, from long-time activists who participate in the North American ecosocialist network System Change Not Climate Change.

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    Steven Pinker’s ideas about progress are fatally flawed. These eight graphs show why

    Originally published: Resilience on May 18, 2018 by Jeremy Lent (more by Resilience)  | (Posted May 25, 2018)

    It’s time to reclaim the mantle of “Progress” for progressives. By falsely tethering the concept of progress to free market economics and centrist values, Steven Pinker has tried to appropriate a great idea for which he has no rightful claim.

Monthly Review Essays

  • Parallel Universes
    Andy Merrifield

    Anybody who’s ever leafed through Finnegans Wake will quickly recognize that we’re not dealing here with a standard novel, just as anybody leafing through Marx’s Capital will know we’re not dealing with standard economics.

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  • Honor the Vietnamese, Not Those Who Killed Them
    Michael D. Yates A Vietnamese stamp depicting two Vietnamese resistance fighters shooting down a US Army helicopter.

    Only the courage of those who opposed the war, including the soldiers who did so at great risk, should be respected.

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