Climate change involves behaviors that are individually negligible, whose impacts go far beyond the spatial and temporal constraints that define our sense… — Dale Jamieson Behavior 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 Action 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 Calm Copy Share Image
Is it in the UK's interests to leave the EU? It depends on your values. The answer can't be read off of… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
People will suffer and so will nature, but life is likely to go on with a great deal of loss and mourning.… — Dale Jamieson Adaptability 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
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 Altruism 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 Action Copy Share Image
I think when it comes to climate change, the single most important thing in the world is for the United States' Congress… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
We need to use economic instruments such as carbon taxes, cap and trade, tax and dividend and whatever else to help incentivize… — Dale Jamieson Agriculture 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… — Dale Jamieson Behavior Copy Share Image
People and countries have done an enormous amount of damage in their attempts to bring about the best possible world. Communism is… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
I grew up as an only child of two parents who had dropped out of high school. They had enormous respect for… — Dale Jamieson Children Copy Share Image
Well, one measure of a good life, I think, is to be engaged in projects that one thinks are meaningful and worthwhile.… — Dale Jamieson Good life Copy Share Image
Climate scientists think of nothing but climate and then express their concerns in terms of constructs such as global mean surface temperature.… — Dale Jamieson Climate 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
Bentham spent much of his life writing constitutions and proposing legal reform in the light of his utilitarianism. The evaluation of particular… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
People talk about the idea of special relationships, that is, the morality only really binds people who stand in some kind of… — 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
I think the mother of all arguments against eating meat now is the climate change argument. Methane is a much more powerful… — Dale Jamieson Argument Copy Share Image
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 Argument Copy Share Image
The only way major change in environmental policy is going to happen, the only way, is if there is a very strong,… — Dale Jamieson Behavior 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… — Dale Jamieson Action Copy Share Image
Philosophers (and probably most intellectuals) are more interested in pursuing what they see as the logical implications of their theories than they… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
The most fundamental challenge of the anthropocene concerns agency. For those who lived the Enlightenment dream (always a minority but an influential… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
The millennium development goals are important, both morally and economically, because much of the world's population maybe is as much as a… — 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 Ability Copy Share Image
If I drive my car to the store, those carbon molecules that are emitted actually get into the atmosphere circulation systems and… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
People who go around saying that it is wrong to fly and to eat meat are not so much making appeals to… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
Philosophy isn't reading Emmanuel Kant. Philosophy is about thinking hard about what the right thing to do is in a situation and… — Dale Jamieson Consideration Copy Share Image
Climate change is not going to be prevented. It's not even going to be mitigated to the degree a rational person would… — Dale Jamieson Change Copy Share Image
'The anthropocene' refers to the way we live now, in a highly globalized world, characterized by a large human population and powerful… — Dale Jamieson Action Copy Share Image
The bizarre thing about the anthropocene is that never has humanity been more powerful and never have individual humans felt so powerless.… — Dale Jamieson Autonomous Copy Share Image
What most forms of Consequentialism cannot do is require us to act in such a way as to make the world worse,… — Dale Jamieson Argument Copy Share Image
Obama's clean power plan, methane regulations, and increased fuel economy standards are about as good as our political system can do at… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
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