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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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Dale Jamieson
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: October 21
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The seas will continue to rise no matter who gets elected president.
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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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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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Climate change involves fundamental choices about how we want to live and what kind of world we want.
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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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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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Philosophers are often actively disinterested in what happens between the cup and the lips (after all, that's non-ideal theory).
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It is probably true that the economic benefits of being in the EU are a net positive to the UK, but a large number of people do not share in these benefits and the result is increasing inequality.
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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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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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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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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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Philosophers are smart, analytical, and skeptical. For these reasons they are relatively unbiased.
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You can't imagine anything like nature as we know it without predators.
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Ethical systems are fundamentally conservative and primarily directed towards regulating interactions within communities.
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We're highly adaptable and have developed some powerful systems of representation.
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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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The erosion of agency has consequences for our politics. As a result of all this, the fundamental ethical challenge of the anthropocene is the recovery of agency, or alternatively to come to terms with its loss and to understand how to go on.
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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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