Even if Bill McKibben were to become dictator, future generations would suffer because of the carbon we had already emitted. — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
Climate change involves behaviors that are individually negligible, whose impacts go far beyond the spatial and temporal constraints that define our sense… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
Every country now has its own domestic political debate about how to respond to climate change. This is where the action is. — 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
It's true that climate change is an unprecedented problem so it's not surprising that it's so difficult to address. — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
When I first started studying climate change back in the 1980s, I was struck by how difficult it was be for people… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
The only way major change in environmental policy is going to happen, the only way, is if there is a very strong,… — 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
Obama's clean power plan, methane regulations, and increased fuel economy standards are about as good as our political system can do at… — 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
Climate change is not going to be prevented. It's not even going to be mitigated to the degree a rational person would… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
When it comes to climate change it's all the usual barriers: greed, mendacity, ignorance, short-sightedness and so on, manifest in the extreme… — 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
There'll come a time when airplanes are much more efficient when it comes to producing lower levels of greenhouse gas emissions, there'll… — 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
If I drive my car to the store, those carbon molecules that are emitted actually get into the atmosphere circulation systems and… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
It's possible that we'll screw up the climate so badly that most of us will die and a few breeding pairs will… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
If you look globally you see a patchwork of jurisdictions (nations, states, provinces, cities) that have taken aggressive action on climate change,… — 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
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
If you have a flat, fixed view of state interest then it is difficult to understand why some states adopt aggressive climate… — 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
The Paris climate conference in December, 2015 was a recognition that countries bring their climate policies to international meetings rather than create… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Moral revolutions are typically seen retrospectively. Prospectively, the revolutionaries tend to look like crazy people, and sometimes they are. — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
In this era of globalization we are witnessing struggles within individual states about what their identity and interests consist in. — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
You can't imagine anything like nature as we know it without predators. — 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
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 Image
One of the real dangers of our time is people's indifference to history. — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
