Shaun Chamberlin

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

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

"Accusations of hypocrisy themselves tend to be rather hypocritical — if no hypocrites were permitted to hold opinions, there would likely be no opinions at all."

"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."

"The threat to our way of life is a consequence of our way of life. Thats what unsustainability means."

"I always thought economics wasn’t the be-all and end-all of life. Now I realise it might be the end-all."

"It is hopefully not too controversial to note that unsustainable things end. There are two possibilities from here – we dramatically change direction or we end up where we are headed. Either way, we are on the cusp of radical change."

"Resilience isnt predicting the correct future and preparing for it; resilience is acting in ways that make sense across the widest range of possible futures."

"The more one learns about Earth and her Earthlings, the more paradoxical the notion of a *Universal* Declaration of *Human* Rights appears..."

"No system can ever relieve us of our personal responsibility, and it is essential that we all recognise the need to change the way we live."

"It’s demonstrably not ‘simply human nature’ to annihilate all around us. No, it’s the nature of this particular human culture. Human potential is so much more, and that’s why conflating the two is so toxic."

"It has become impossible to be simultaneously realistic about both the political climate and the science of climate. The two stubbornly refuse to reconcile, so we are forced to decide which carries more weight, and then be profoundly unrealistic about the other. To take present policy seriously demands a total rejection of the science. To take the science seriously demands a total rejection of the policy on the table. And so grassroots movements like the Extinction Rebellion and Climate Mobilization are emerging – the realists of a larger reality."