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Our globalised world finds itself caught on the horns of a seemingly impossible dilemma – either cease growing, and so collapse the economy on which we all depend, or continue to grow until we overwhelm and destroy the ecosystems on which we all depend.

— Shaun Chamberlin

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Failure to live up to a truth doesn’t make it any less true, less worth striving for, or less worth defending.

The only economic system that has ever truly worked – the system upon which all others have depended – is Nature.

All our thoughts and beliefs are somehow hollow until they find expression in action.

Resilience isn't predicting the correct future and preparing for it; resilience is acting in ways that make sense across the widest range of possible futures.

Chamberlin's @DarkOptimism account (2021)

Put starkly, most of the wild nature that was here fifty years ago is gone. And still we seek to grow the human economy, and cheer when that growth accelerates.

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