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The density of human population combined with the development of powerful and largely unconstrained technology has given us the problems of the anthropocene and the serious possibility of self-caused extinction.
Dale Jamieson
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Dale Jamieson
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: October 21
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Sioux City
Iowa
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If we're interested in the continuation of the human experiment we need to focus on resilience and coping with change (whether natural or anthropogenic) rather than living as if God or nature has given us a nice, orderly, calm, Babbit-like existence.
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When it comes to climate change it's all the usual barriers: greed, mendacity, ignorance, short-sightedness and so on, manifest in the extreme power of corporations, the weakness of government, and the indifference of citizens.
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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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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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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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