Dark Optimism
  • Home
  • Blog
  • Courses
    • Surviving the Future: A Path Through Tumultuous Times
    • Surviving the Future: The Deeper Dive
  • Events
  • Books
  • Articles
  • Projects
  • Links
  • About
  • Search
Select Page
The Dangers of Carbon Pricing, and the Canny Way Forward

The Dangers of Carbon Pricing, and the Canny Way Forward

by Shaun Chamberlin | May 29, 2015 | All Posts, Climate Change, Cultural stories, Economics, Out and about, Politics, TEQs (Tradable Energy Quotas), Transition Movement

Lately we’ve seen the president of the World Bank and ‘business leaders from the very carbon-intensive industries’ pushing for carbon pricing (taxes or ‘carbon trading’ schemes). This is intended to demonstrate their deep change of heart...
Interview on grief, Dark Optimism, aliveness and activism

Interview on grief, Dark Optimism, aliveness and activism

by Shaun Chamberlin | Dec 21, 2014 | 21st December, All Posts, Climate Change, Cultural stories, Favourite posts, Out and about, Philosophy

This is an excerpt from a longer video interview Rhonda Fabian conducted with Shaun Chamberlin at the opening of the New Story Summit in Findhorn, Scotland. Part of a Findhorn Foundation documentary initiative. Transcript originally published in the Kosmos Journal....
All Party Parliamentary TEQs report launch

All Party Parliamentary TEQs report launch

by Shaun Chamberlin | Jan 23, 2011 | All Posts, Climate Change, Cultural stories, Economics, Peak Oil, Politics, Reviews and recommendations, TEQs (Tradable Energy Quotas), Transition Movement

What a week – Tuesday’s launch of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Peak Oil’s report into TEQs was a tremendous success, with excellent media coverage, including Time magazine, The Sunday Times, Bloomberg News, the BBC, the Financial Times and...
Focus on Climate Change and ignore Peak Oil?  Not good enough

Focus on Climate Change and ignore Peak Oil? Not good enough

by Shaun Chamberlin | Jun 14, 2008 | All Posts, Climate Change, Favourite posts, Peak Oil, The Transition Timeline, Transition Movement

Lately I seem to be encountering many climate change activists who have a blind spot when it comes to peak oil. At present, Friends of the Earth appear to be particularly prone to this. They assert that climate change is overwhelmingly urgent (no arguments from me...
TEQs (downstream) or Cap and Dividend (upstream)?

TEQs (downstream) or Cap and Dividend (upstream)?

by Shaun Chamberlin | Jun 8, 2008 | All Posts, Climate Change, Cultural stories, Favourite posts, Peak Oil, Politics, TEQs (Tradable Energy Quotas)

In the climate policy community there is a growing debate between advocates of ‘upstream’ and ‘downstream’ carbon caps (dams?). The terms draw an analogy between the flow of water in a stream and the flow of energy through an economy....

Pause

"What luck for the rulers that men do not think."

- Adolf Hitler

Recent Comments

  • adam jacobowitz on Surviving the Future audiobook
  • Michael Ressl on It doesn’t matter whether there’s still time to save the world
  • Frank Salerno on It doesn’t matter whether there’s still time to save the world
  • Shaun Chamberlin on Of grief

Posts by topic

Posts by date

SURVIVING THE FUTURE:
CONVERSATIONS FOR OUR TIME

Online COMMUNITY with
Shaun Chamberlin

NOW AVAILABLE YEAR ROUND:
A PATH THROUGH
TUMULTUOUS TIMES

JOIN NOW

SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER

Success!

Subscribe

The text content of Shaun Chamberlin’s blog is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 2.0 UK: England & Wales license. Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be requested here.

© Copyright 2007-2025 Dark Optimism