Aristotle thought that humans are rational animals and Hobbes thought that we act on the basis of rational self-interest. If only! It's… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
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
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
If we don't have historical consciousness we can't really understand problems in all their dimensions, and if we can't understand problems than… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
Many environmental questions are in a deep way philosophical, despite our penchant for treating them as if they were only technological, economic,… — 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
If we're interested in the continuation of the human experiment we need to focus on resilience and coping with change (whether natural… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
[This approach] displays the characteristic philosophical lust to vanquish the skeptic by arguing him out of his skepticism, without appeal to moral… — 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
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
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
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
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