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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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Dale Jamieson
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: October 21
Academic
Jurist
University Teacher
Sioux City
Iowa
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Enlightenment
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It's true that climate change is an unprecedented problem so it's not surprising that it's so difficult to address.
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If you're interested in doing something about climate change as we all should be, all of us who care about future people and creatures that will inhabit this world. Then buying a Prius is a good thing but an even better thing would be to be on the streets demanding urgent action from the United States' Congress.
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The bizarre thing about the anthropocene is that never has humanity been more powerful and never have individual humans felt so powerless. This is because so much that drives the circumstances of the anthropocene is the aggregation of apparently negligible acts, often amplified by technology, rather than decisive acts by autonomous decision-makers.
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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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You can't imagine anything like nature as we know it without predators.
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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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Sometimes I say philosophers should be at the table because they're the only people who know that they're not going to walk away with big money to support their research or to fund their crackpot solutions.
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Moral revolutions are typically seen retrospectively. Prospectively, the revolutionaries tend to look like crazy people, and sometimes they are.
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Apocalypses don't happen very often. They tend to be separated by tens or even hundreds of millions of years.
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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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In trying to develop an impartial, expansive ethic we are trying to get ethical systems to do something which they did not evolve in order to do. This doesn't mean that it can't be done or that we shouldn't try to expand the reach of our ethical frameworks, only that there are reasons to be skeptical about its success.
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The seas will continue to rise no matter who gets elected president.
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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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Ethical systems are fundamentally conservative and primarily directed towards regulating interactions within communities.
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We live on a restless planet in a violent universe.
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The only way major change in environmental policy is going to happen, the only way, is if there is a very strong, very active popular movement that demands it and such a movement would be unparalleled because it would be a popular movement that says, Raise our taxes so that we change our behavior.
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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.
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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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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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If we don't have historical consciousness we can't really understand problems in all their dimensions, and if we can't understand problems than we can't find solutions.
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