Notes from the Editors, February 2017
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https://doi.org/10.14452/MR-068-09-2017-02_0Keywords:
Ecology, Political EconomyAbstract
For those attuned to the most fashionable trends in mainstream discourse on climate change, it is clear that "resilience" is now in, and "sustainability" is out.… The concept of resilience, while adopted by some progressive thinkers and organizations, is nonetheless being rapidly incorporated into a survival-of-the-most-resilient philosophy in which poor nations, and indeed exploited and dispossessed people everywhere, are told they must simply become more "resilient" in order to survive—but in a world in which such dynamic adaptability is available mainly to the rich, who enjoy monopolies of capital, resources, and technology.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website.
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