Part 2: In this episode we talk about surviving the future. What is happening in the world regarding climate change, the economy and environmental issues? My guest today is someone who has been involved in the highest levels of decision making regarding UK environmental policy. He shares some very uncomfortable truths. Are we on the brink of collapse? Is there anything we can do about it?

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Shaun Chamberlin has been involved with the Transition Network since its inception, cofounding Transition Town Kingston and authoring the movement's second book, The Transition Timeline. 

He is managing director of the Fleming Policy Centre and former chair of the Ecological Land Co-operative, and has spoken at venues ranging from Occupy camps to Parliaments.

In exploring the cultural narratives charting society's course he has written for or edited a diverse range of books, magazines, academic journals, and other publications, including co-authoring a significant UK All Party Parliamentary report with his close friend and regular collaborator David Fleming. His website is www.darkoptimism.org. 

Subjects that I ask Shaun:

1. I would love for you to share some of your path to how you now do what you do?
2. “We are unshamedly positive about what kind of a world humanity could create, and unashamedly realistic about how far we are from creating it today.”
3. David Fleming – A Dictionary for the Future and How We Survive it
4. Economic collapse
5. We need to keep hope alive.
6. Grief – the annilation of life on earth – living in a dying world – headed into the collapse scenario
7. I want to tell a story with life that I am extremely proud to tell.
8. Feeling alone with the apocalypse – find a peer group – find other people who care – resilience.org
9. “Do nothing that matters without consulting a conversation” DF
10. What is necessary, that we might have a future?
11. The key to a better future lies not in jobs, growth and mathematics, but in culture, community and conviviality. 
12. Community resilience
13. Where are we headed?
14. What can we do? The middle ground...

#climatechange #economicalcollapse #survivingthefuture

For more information about Shaun's work please visit: https://www.darkoptimism.org

For access to the Lean Logic online dictionary: https://leanlogic.online/

For access to Shaun's course Surviving the Future at Vermont College: https://www.ce.sterlingcollege.edu/surviving-the-future

Find him on Twitter at @darkoptimism 

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Piers is an author and a men's transformational coach and therapist who works mainly with trauma, boarding school issues, addictions and relationship problems.

He also runs online men's groups for ex-boarders, retreats and a podcast called An Evolving Man.

He is also the author of How to Survive and Thrive in Challenging Times. To purchase Piers first book: https://www.amazon.co.uk/How-Survive-Thrive-Challenging-Times/dp/B088T5L251/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=piers+cross&qid=1609869608&sr=8-1

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Many blessings,

Piers Cross

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