"2020 - LeanLogic.online - Reworking of David Fleming's posthumous Lean Logic: A Dictionary for the Future and How to Survive It as an interactive website"

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“Chamberlin's Dark Optimism website”

“2015 - Academic paper in the Carbon Management journal advocating for TEQs, lead-authored by Chamberlin”

“Have you noticed how over recent decades, our expectations of the future have gradually shifted? How maybe we used to quietly assume that life for the next generation would be better than ours, and now quietly assume the opposite? That is not the mark of a civilisation that is making good choices. That is not a show that we need to get back on the road.”

“Failure to live up to a truth doesn’t make it any less true, less worth striving for, or less worth defending.”

“2016 - Surviving the Future: Culture, Carnival and Capital in the Aftermath of the Market Economy - the paperback which Chamberlin drew from David Fleming's Lean Logic”

“The threat to our way of life is a consequence of our way of life. That's what unsustainability means.”

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