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“Apocalypses don't happen very often. They tend to be separated by tens or even hundreds of millions of years.”

Quote by Dale Jamieson

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

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“It's possible that we'll screw up the climate so badly that most of us will die and a few breeding pairs will remain somewhere in the arctic. What's more likely is that we'll continue remaking the planet, driving many species to extinction, killing millions of people through the indirect effects of climate change, making life even harder for the poor and powerless than it is now, and making it a little more difficult for the global middle class to live the lives to which they have become accustomed - in other words, business as usual, only worse.”

“People will suffer and so will nature, but life is likely to go on with a great deal of loss and mourning. Human adaptability and resilience will still be alive, and so will that great need and resource of ours called love.”

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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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“Climate scientists think of nothing but climate and then express their concerns in terms of constructs such as global mean surface temperature. But we live in a world in which all sorts of change is happening all the time, and the only way to understand what climate change will bring is to tell stories about how it manifests in people's lives.”

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“We need more science, but what we especially need is science fiction.”

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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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“Philosophers are smart, analytical, and skeptical. For these reasons they are relatively unbiased.”

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“Many environmental questions are in a deep way philosophical, despite our penchant for treating them as if they were only technological, economic, or whatever.”

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“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.”

“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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