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Environment Quotes by Dale Jamieson

10 Environment quotes by Dale Jamieson

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If you’re curious about how a philosopher frames the natural world, this short set of ten remarks by Dale Jamieson gives a clear, focused glimpse. The selection is modest, yet each line captures a distinct angle on ecological responsibility and the moral stakes of our choices.

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We're not good at noticing slow, steady changes in our environments, our senses are not very acute compared to those of many…

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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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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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Climate change involves behaviors that are individually negligible, whose impacts go far beyond the spatial and temporal constraints that define our sense…

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We need to use economic instruments such as carbon taxes, cap and trade, tax and dividend and whatever else to help incentivize…

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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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Climate change is not going to be prevented. It's not even going to be mitigated to the degree a rational person would…

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Climate scientists think of nothing but climate and then express their concerns in terms of constructs such as global mean surface temperature.…

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If I drive my car to the store, those carbon molecules that are emitted actually get into the atmosphere circulation systems and…

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I think the challenge of climate change in particular is the challenge for us to create and produce new norms for a…

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People with long memories and a vivid sense of the past have an immediate understanding of politicians like Donald Trump. They are not surprised…

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On my reading of history people who want to bring us the best are usually the people we ought to be afraid of.

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We know the "great men" and a handful of heavily cited papers in our specialization. When there is a historical frame around a paper…

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The very essence of civilized culture is that we deliberately institute, in advance of the happening of various contingencies and emergencies of life, devices…

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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 of communicating…

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Moral revolutions are typically seen retrospectively. Prospectively, the revolutionaries tend to look like crazy people, and sometimes they are.

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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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You can't imagine anything like nature as we know it without predators.

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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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One of the real dangers of our time is people's indifference to history.

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