“The problem is that the Enlightenment dream may make too many demands on poor African apes like us. We may just not be up to it.” MayProblemDreamPoorDemandEnlightenmentApes Author:Dale Jamieson
“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.” HumansSelfProblemGivenPowerfulTechnologyPossibilitySeriousDevelopmentPopulationExtinctionDensityHuman Population Author:Dale Jamieson
“We live in a world in which everyone wants solutions. But we can't find solutions if we don't understand the problems, and we can't understand the problems without knowing how we got here.” IfsWorldWantProblemKnowingSolutions Author:Dale Jamieson
“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.” IfsProblemConsciousnessSolutionsHistoricalDimensions Author:Dale Jamieson
“It's true that climate change is an unprecedented problem so it's not surprising that it's so difficult to address.” ProblemDifficultClimateClimate ChangeAddressesSurprisingUnprecedented Author:Dale Jamieson
“Environmental problems provoke challenges about what kind of world we want, how important we think it is if something is brought about by human action or by brute nature, what we think of the value of human life compared to that of other living things.” IfsThinkingWorldWantHumansKindImportantProblemActionValuesChallengesEnvironmentalHuman LifeProvokingLiving ThingsBrutesHuman ActionsEnvironmental ProblemsValue Of Human Life Author:Dale Jamieson
“In the face of the collective action problems that are at the heart of the environmental crisis, consequentialists should seek to inculcate the "green virtues" which includes the virtue of cooperativeness. This would not bring about the best possible world but it would set us on the path of making it better.” WorldShouldHeartProblemActionFacesVirtuePathCrisisGreenEnvironmentalCollectivesCollective ActionEnvironmental Crisis Author:Dale Jamieson
“The problem is that for almost any feature of humanity that you can name, whether it's the ability to suffer, whether it's the capacity to reason, whether it's having lives that can go better or worse, there are at least some other non-human animals that have all of these features as well. So to exclude non-human animals from the range of moral concern but to include all humans, just seems morally arbitrary.” ReasonProblemSufferingHumanityAbilityAnimalMoralConcern Author:Dale Jamieson
“I think the challenge of climate change in particular is the challenge for us to create and produce new norms for a new kind of world. And that's why I think as important as the issue of climate change is, it's even more important than it seems because if we can't evolve very quickly, new norms to deal with issues like climate change, we're not going to be able to survive in the kind of world we've created. So I think, really, the whole nature of democracy, of governance, of global community and of solving the kinds of problems of the 21st Century are really at stake.” ThinkingWorldKindImportantProblemCommunityChallengesDemocracyClimate ChangeEvolve21st CenturyNorm Author:Dale Jamieson
