Dale Jamieson

It's obvious that there are vast variety of consequentialist views, depending on what we think goodness consists in, what our notion of…

— Dale Jamieson

I think that by the middle of this century people will still be eating meat (though less), and their meat will mostly…

— Dale Jamieson

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

— Dale Jamieson

Some philosophers have begun writing sympathetically about predator elimination as a way of reducing animal suffering. From an environmental perspective this is…

— Dale Jamieson

In the last few centuries we've managed to reduce how much we kill each other, we've learned some basic lessons about public…

— Dale Jamieson

Well, one measure of a good life, I think, is to be engaged in projects that one thinks are meaningful and worthwhile.…

— Dale Jamieson

I see a lot of individual action when it comes to environmental questions really as a form of politics as a way…

— Dale Jamieson

The only way major change in environmental policy is going to happen, the only way, is if there is a very strong,…

— Dale Jamieson

Philosophers (and probably most intellectuals) are more interested in pursuing what they see as the logical implications of their theories than they…

— Dale Jamieson

I think the mother of all arguments against eating meat now is the climate change argument. Methane is a much more powerful…

— Dale Jamieson

The Consequentialist trinity is typically regarded in this way: Bentham is crude, Mill's writings are full of howlers and inconsistencies, and Sidgwick…

— Dale Jamieson

The Paris climate conference in December, 2015 was a recognition that countries bring their climate policies to international meetings rather than create…

— Dale Jamieson

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

— Dale Jamieson

A common rhetorical strategy of politicians and others is to frame their opponents' views in the worst possible light, tacitly suggesting that…

— Dale Jamieson

I think when it comes to climate change, the single most important thing in the world is for the United States' Congress…

— Dale Jamieson

If you look globally you see a patchwork of jurisdictions (nations, states, provinces, cities) that have taken aggressive action on climate change,…

— Dale Jamieson

I grew up as an only child of two parents who had dropped out of high school. They had enormous respect for…

— Dale Jamieson

People with long memories and a vivid sense of the past have an immediate understanding of politicians like Donald Trump. They are…

— Dale Jamieson

People and countries have done an enormous amount of damage in their attempts to bring about the best possible world. Communism is…

— Dale Jamieson

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

— Dale Jamieson

Citizens often think of a state's interests in terms of the promotion of ideals such as democracy, a particular way of life,…

— Dale Jamieson

None of us are rational economic men as we're supposed to be portrayed in economic theory where mixes of passions, of desires,…

— Dale Jamieson

If you have a flat, fixed view of state interest then it is difficult to understand why some states adopt aggressive climate…

— Dale Jamieson

A great deal of our math, science, philosophy, and everyday behavior presupposes that stability and equilibria are the "default" states, and everything…

— Dale Jamieson

I became religious and at 14 went to a boarding school 500 miles from home to begin theological studies. By the time…

— Dale Jamieson

I played with English and Sociology in college but dropped out to work in the anti-war movement. I was going around denouncing…

— Dale Jamieson

Critics of Consequentialism have often assumed that hedonism (or preference-satisfaction) must be the theory of the good, that the deontic principle must…

— Dale Jamieson

If you're interested in doing something about climate change as we all should be, all of us who care about future people…

— Dale Jamieson

In the face of the collective action problems that are at the heart of the environmental crisis, consequentialists should seek to inculcate…

— Dale Jamieson

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

If you look at the works psychologists have done about individual reports of wellbeing, what happens is that if you're poor, you…

— Dale Jamieson

Is it in the interests of Britain to leave or remain in the EU? As we saw in the referendum, there are…

— Dale Jamieson

I must say that in my own mind, I think what's important is for us, as a society, to radically reduce the…

— Dale Jamieson

The idea that we would raise billions of sentient animals, treat them horribly, pollute our waterways with their waste, compromise the effectiveness…

— Dale Jamieson

In trying to develop an impartial, expansive ethic we are trying to get ethical systems to do something which they did not…

— Dale Jamieson

Much of the point of individual action is really to communicate with other people and with political leaders and to demonstrate to…

— Dale Jamieson