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The Enlightenment dream is a good one. The idea that people should rationally appreciate their place in nature, assess threats and possibilities, and regulate their behavior in response is inspiring.

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Dale Jamieson
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: October 21
Academic
Jurist
University Teacher
Sioux City
Iowa
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Every country now has its own domestic political debate about how to respond to climate change. This is where the action is.
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A great deal of our math, science, philosophy, and everyday behavior presupposes that stability and equilibria are the default states, and everything else involves some perturbation. This is a mental model, a conceptual frame, a tacit belief, a presupposition - whatever you want to call it.
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Since we're not very good at something as basic as controlling our reproduction, life is really bad for more people than ever before.
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When I first started studying climate change back in the 1980s, I was struck by how difficult it was be for people to understand this issue.
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We live on a restless planet in a violent universe.
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Progressive Consequentialsm requires us to make the world better but we are under no obligation to bring about the best possible world.
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Climate change involves fundamental choices about how we want to live and what kind of world we want.
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We're highly adaptable and have developed some powerful systems of representation.
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It's obvious that there are vast variety of consequentialist views, depending on what we think goodness consists in, what our notion of consequence is, and what level (or levels) of human action we think the principle should be applied.
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You can't imagine anything like nature as we know it without predators.
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The Enlightenment is not a nightmare, nor is it something that comes easily to us. It is an aspiration - and a good one!
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Ethical systems are fundamentally conservative and primarily directed towards regulating interactions within communities.
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Most process philosophy is historicist (e.g., Hegel) and not concerned with deep time. Maybe Whitehead is an exception. He may be a really important philosopher for all I know. I've never been able to read him.
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Philosophers (and probably most intellectuals) are more interested in pursuing what they see as the logical implications of their theories than they are in paying attention to the shlumpy diversity of defensible values that people actually have, and then trying to figure out how these might be negotiated in the life of an agent or community.
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Many environmental questions are in a deep way philosophical, despite our penchant for treating them as if they were only technological, economic, or whatever.
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Philosophers are smart, analytical, and skeptical. For these reasons they are relatively unbiased.
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Even if Bill McKibben were to become dictator, future generations would suffer because of the carbon we had already emitted.
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In this era of globalization we are witnessing struggles within individual states about what their identity and interests consist in.
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If you look globally you see a patchwork of jurisdictions (nations, states, provinces, cities) that have taken aggressive action on climate change, and a patchwork of jurisdictions that have not. These various policies reflect the politics of each jurisdiction and the values of its citizens.
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I take seriously the idea that we are African Apes who (at least for the moment) dominate the planet, but our psychology is pretty much what it was when we were living in small groups on the savanna.
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