Action Quotes by Dale Jamieson

9 Action quotes by Dale Jamieson

Jamieson’s snippets weave ethical reflection with a call to act, reminding us that responsibility isn’t abstract. Though limited in number, they provide a clear lens for aligning values with concrete steps.

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Every country now has its own domestic political debate about how to respond to climate change. This is where the action is.

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It's obvious that there are vast variety of consequentialist views, depending on what we think goodness consists in, what our notion of…

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'The anthropocene' refers to the way we live now, in a highly globalized world, characterized by a large human population and powerful…

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Environmental problems provoke challenges about what kind of world we want, how important we think it is if something is brought about…

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I see a lot of individual action when it comes to environmental questions really as a form of politics as a way…

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If you look globally you see a patchwork of jurisdictions (nations, states, provinces, cities) that have taken aggressive action on climate change,…

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If you're interested in doing something about climate change as we all should be, all of us who care about future people…

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In the face of the collective action problems that are at the heart of the environmental crisis, consequentialists should seek to inculcate…

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Much of the point of individual action is really to communicate with other people and with political leaders and to demonstrate to…

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In this era of globalization we are witnessing struggles within individual states about what their identity and interests consist in.

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Climate change involves fundamental choices about how we want to live and what kind of world we want.

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Acts are right in virtue of the goodness of their consequences.

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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…

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