I worry that even well-intentioned attempts to "improve nature" (say by reducing suffering) will make things worse even in their own terms. — 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
