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In the last few centuries we've managed to reduce how much we kill each other, we've learned some basic lessons about public health, and life is relatively good for more people than ever before.

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Dale Jamieson
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: October 21
Academic
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Sioux City
Iowa
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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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Philosophers are smart, analytical, and skeptical. For these reasons they are relatively unbiased.
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Attitudes are changing very quickly.
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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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The seas will continue to rise no matter who gets elected president.
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We think of history as another specialization, like philosophy of language, rather than as something that informs everything we do and think.
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Acts are right in virtue of the goodness of their consequences.
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The Paris climate conference in December, 2015 was a recognition that countries bring their climate policies to international meetings rather than create them during the negotiations (much less do they receive orders from the international community and then go home and implement them).
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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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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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You can't imagine anything like nature as we know it without predators.
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