"2017 - "Community, Place and Play: A Post-Market Economics" - Schumacher College course taught by Chamberlin, in partnership with Rob Hopkins and Mark Boyle"

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“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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"I was forced, through seeing the error of their foundation, to abandon all belief in every religion which had been taught to man. But my religious feelings were immediately replaced by the spirit of u…"

— Robert Owen

Philosophy1771–1858

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"A notable quotation is when Qasim asked his Uncle Hussain, if his name would be amongst the names of those who would be blessed with martyrdom in the battle for Islam at Karbala. His Uncle replied ask…"

— Qasim ibn Hasan

800–1348

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"The fact of it is that all of us agreed to save 6d. in the Income Tax by breaking up the Army in peace-time and not having it prepared when war broke out...I will never be a party to it again."

— Ernest Bevin

Politics1881–1951

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