Dark Optimism is the not-for-profit public interest research, activism and writing of Shaun Chamberlin, working with a wide network of friends and partners around the world. We are unashamedly positive about what kind of a world humanity could create, and unashamedly realistic about how far we are from creating it today.

Dark Optimism is the not-for-profit public
    interest research, activism and writing of
        Shaun Chamberlin, working with a wide
            network of friends and partners around
                the world. We are unashamedly positive
                    about the kind of future we could be
                        creating, and unashamedly realistic about
                            how far we are from doing so today.
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