In much of the world today there are no more chilling words than "I'm from the United States and I'm here to… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
Climate change involves fundamental choices about how we want to live and what kind of world we want. — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
Progressive Consequentialsm requires us to make the world better but we are under no obligation to bring about the best possible world. — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
We live in a world in which everyone wants solutions. But we can't find solutions if we don't understand the problems, and… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
I think when it comes to climate change, the single most important thing in the world is for the United States' Congress… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
People and countries have done an enormous amount of damage in their attempts to bring about the best possible world. Communism is… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
We need to use economic instruments such as carbon taxes, cap and trade, tax and dividend and whatever else to help incentivize… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
Our traditional systems of decision-making are just not up to preventing changes in fundamental earth systems that are driven by a constant… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
If you're interested in doing something about climate change as we all should be, all of us who care about future people… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
In the face of the collective action problems that are at the heart of the environmental crisis, consequentialists should seek to inculcate… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
What most forms of Consequentialism cannot do is require us to act in such a way as to make the world worse,… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
Environmental problems provoke challenges about what kind of world we want, how important we think it is if something is brought about… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
People who go around saying that it is wrong to fly and to eat meat are not so much making appeals to… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
'The anthropocene' refers to the way we live now, in a highly globalized world, characterized by a large human population and powerful… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
I think, questions about what it means to respect nature become very important because just as in human society, for example, part… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
Even those who specialize in the history of philosophy often ignore the political and cultural context, and the natural world in which… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
I think the challenge of climate change in particular is the challenge for us to create and produce new norms for a… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
Some philosophers think that the idea of a consequentialist virtue theory is strange, but the real strength of consequentialism is that it… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
Climate scientists think of nothing but climate and then express their concerns in terms of constructs such as global mean surface temperature.… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
People with long memories and a vivid sense of the past have an immediate understanding of politicians like Donald Trump. They are not surprised… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share
On my reading of history people who want to bring us the best are usually the people we ought to be afraid of. — Dale Jamieson Copy Share
We know the "great men" and a handful of heavily cited papers in our specialization. When there is a historical frame around a paper… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share
The very essence of civilized culture is that we deliberately institute, in advance of the happening of various contingencies and emergencies of life, devices… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share
I see a lot of individual action when it comes to environmental questions really as a form of politics as a way of communicating… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share
Moral revolutions are typically seen retrospectively. Prospectively, the revolutionaries tend to look like crazy people, and sometimes they are. — Dale Jamieson Copy Share
In this era of globalization we are witnessing struggles within individual states about what their identity and interests consist in. — Dale Jamieson Copy Share
Climate change involves fundamental choices about how we want to live and what kind of world we want. — Dale Jamieson Copy Share
Our traditional systems of decision-making are just not up to preventing changes in fundamental earth systems that are driven by a constant barrage of… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share
We're not good at noticing slow, steady changes in our environments, our senses are not very acute compared to those of many animals, and… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share
Philosophers are smart, analytical, and skeptical. For these reasons they are relatively unbiased. — Dale Jamieson Copy Share
The millennium development goals are important, both morally and economically, because much of the world's population maybe is as much as a third of… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share
