by Shaun Chamberlin | Mar 28, 2020 | All Posts, Favourite posts, Featured, Lean Logic, Surviving the Future, TEQs (Tradable Energy Quotas), The Sequel
It's been brought to my attention that after over fifteen years of Dark Optimism, some of the best stuff has got a little buried.
If you're new here, I keep this post updated, so let me give you the tour and see what grabs your interest!
by Shaun Chamberlin | Aug 6, 2019 | All Posts, Climate Change, Cultural stories, Economics, Favourite posts, Featured, Philosophy
As awareness spreads of the ecocidal consequences of our civilisation, I increasingly hear opinions to the effect that humanity is nothing but a plague, a parasite. A virus with shoes...
It can even lead to the opinion (frequently expressed by those in favour of burying our heads in the sand) that people concerned about humanity's impacts should do the world a favour and kill themselves. Indeed, as this hypothesis continues to spread, I don't doubt that it has contributed to actual suicides.
So it seems worth highlighting that it isn't true.
by Shaun Chamberlin | Jan 18, 2019 | 21st December, All Posts, Cultural stories, David Fleming, Economics, Favourite posts, Featured, Lean Logic, Surviving the Future, The Sequel
In 2014 Ursula K. Le Guin accepted the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters with a deliciously powerful speech.
Aware that her time was nearing its end, she declared that her “beautiful reward” was accepted on behalf of, and shared with...
by Shaun Chamberlin | Jan 20, 2013 | All Posts, Climate Change, Cultural stories, Favourite posts, Featured, Philosophy
When environmentalists argue amongst themselves, whether at some formal debate or late at night over a few drinks, I confidently predict that the argument will go like this.
One will say (in one form or another):
"There's no time to wait for radical change or revolution; the crisis is overwhelmingly urgent, we simply have to act within the frameworks we have now".
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