The problem is that the Enlightenment dream may make too many demands on poor African apes like us. We may just not… — 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
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
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
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
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
The density of human population combined with the development of powerful and largely unconstrained technology has given us the problems of the… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
The problem is that for almost any feature of humanity that you can name, whether it's the ability to suffer, whether it's… — 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
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