Peter Buffett, David Bollier and others on David Fleming
Channel: Dark Optimism
Date: 2018-02-05

Highlights from interviews recorded at Sterling College's "Surviving the Future symposium on the late David Fleming's work (https://sterlingcollege.edu/uncategorized/surviving-future-symposium-held-sterling-college/).  Dec 1st-2nd 2017, Craftsbury Common, Vermont.  More extensive (13 min) highlights from the event available at:
https://vimeo.com/252762071

Or for more on the late Dr. David Fleming (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_F... ), author of the posthumous books 'Surviving the Future: Culture, Carnival and Capital in the Aftermath of the Market Economy' and the multi award-winning 'Lean Logic: A Dictionary for the Future and How to Survive It', see: 
https://www.flemingpolicycentre.org.uk/books

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“I would unreservedly go so far as to say that David Fleming was one of the most original, brilliant, urgently-needed, underrated, and ahead-of-his-time thinkers of the last 50 years. History will come to place him alongside Schumacher, Berry, Seymour, Cobbett, and those other brilliant souls who could not just imagine a more resilient world but who could paint a picture of it in such vivid colours. Step into the world of David Fleming; you'll be so glad you did.”
 ~ Rob Hopkins, cofounder of the Transition Network 

“David Fleming was an elder of the UK green movement and a key figure in the early Green Party. Drawing on the heritage of Schumacher’s Small Is Beautiful, Fleming’s beautifully written and nourishing vision of a post-growth economics grounded in human-scale culture and community—rather than big finance—is both inspiring and ever more topical.”
 ~ Caroline Lucas MP, co-leader, Green Party of England and Wales; former Member of the European Parliament 

"Why do some of the truly great books only emerge and exact their influence upon us after the death of their authors? Perhaps it takes a lifetime to accrue and refine the necessary wisdom. Or perhaps it simply takes the rest of us too long to catch up. Like Thoreau, Fleming's masterpiece brims not only with fresh insight into every nook and cranny of our culture and what it means to be human, but with such wit and humour that its challenging ideas and radical perspectives become a refreshing delight. If we’re to have a future worth surviving, this book demands to be read, re-read, and—ultimately—acted upon."
 ~ Mark Boyle, author of The Moneyless Manifesto and Drinking Molotov Cocktails with Gandhi


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