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“Environmental philosophy just is philosophy full stop. It only sprung up as distinct subfield because mainstream philosophy was ignoring some of the most important philosophical challenges of our time.”

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Dale Jamieson

Limited information is available about Dale Jamieson, who was born on October 21, 1947, and is of an unknown profession. more

“The idea that we would raise billions of sentient animals, treat them horribly, pollute our waterways with their waste, compromise the effectiveness of our antibiotics so that they grow faster, and then slaughter them with little regard to their suffering so that we can feed off their corpses, will seem to most people unthinkably cruel and barbarous - sort of in the way that we think of medieval punishments, or Europeans today think of the death penalty.”

“Increasingly both environmentalists and animal ethicists recognize the enormous destruction caused by animal agriculture.”

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“Some philosophers have begun writing sympathetically about predator elimination as a way of reducing animal suffering. From an environmental perspective this is somewhere between naïve and potentially disastrous.”

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“You can't imagine anything like nature as we know it without predators.”

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“I worry that even well-intentioned attempts to "improve nature" (say by reducing suffering) will make things worse even in their own terms.”

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“Philosophers (and probably most intellectuals) are more interested in pursuing what they see as the logical implications of their theories than they are in paying attention to the shlumpy diversity of defensible values that people actually have, and then trying to figure out how these might be negotiated in the life of an agent or community.”

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“Philosophers tend to radically underestimate the distance between abstract principles (such as "reduce suffering") and what it might actually mean for people to act on them.”

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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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