"2020 - EcoGather program - Sterling College launch $1.5m educational program in consultation with Chamberlin, including Surviving the Future: Conversations for Our Time online course"

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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.”

Resonant Thoughts

"The man who receives five thousand dollars a year wants six thousand dollars a year, and the man who owns eight or nine hundred thousand dollars will want a hundred thousand dollars more to make it a …"

— Samuel Gompers

Politics1850–1924

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"Success is full of promise till men get it; and then it is last year's nest from which the bird has flown."

— Henry Ward Beecher

Social Activism1813–1887

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"Today the name of America has a magic meaning for the most distant communities of the world."

— Mohammad Reza Pahlavi

1919–1980

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"Jimi Hendrix is very important. He's my idol. He sort of epitomizes, from his presentation on stage, the whole works of a rock star. There's no way you can compare him. You either have the magic or yo…"

— Freddie Mercury

Music1946–1991

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