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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.
Dale Jamieson
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Dale Jamieson
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: October 21
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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 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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