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Dale Jamieson is Professor of Environmental Studies and Philosophy at New York University, a scholar of environmental ethics and an analyst of climate change discourse. He also serves as a faculty affiliate for the NYU School of Law and as director of NYU's Animal Studies Initiative, which was funded by Brad Goldberg with a $1 million donation in 2010 (Banjo, Wall Street Journal). Jamieson also holds positions at The Dickson Poon School of Law and at the University of the Sunshine Coast in Australia.

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Acts are right in virtue of the goodness of their consequences.

Acts, Consequence, Goodness, Right, Virtue

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

Philosopher, Philosophers, Relatively, Smart, Unbiased

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.

Knowing, Solutions, Understand, Want, World

The seas will continue to rise no matter who gets elected president.

Elected, Matter, President, Sea, Seas

Moral revolutions are typically seen retrospectively. Prospectively, the revolutionaries tend to look like crazy people, and sometimes they are.

Crazy, Look, Looks, People, Revolutions

We know the "great men" and a handful of heavily cited papers in our specialization. When there is a historical frame around a paper it's often a caricature that has become canonical.

Historical, Know, Men, Paper, Papers

Even those who specialize in the history of philosophy often ignore the political and cultural context, and the natural world in which their philosophers were philosophizing. This has consequences both trivial and important. If you systematically read the last fifty years of the major journals in our discipline you would be amazed at the amount of redundancy. Most of this is unacknowledged because most of us know so little about the history of our discipline and even the subfields in which we work.

Cultural, Discipline, Philosophizing, Philosophy, Years

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.

Agency, Alternatively, Ethical, Loss, Recovery, Result

If you look at the works psychologists have done about individual reports of wellbeing, what happens is that if you're poor, you are not happy. But once you achieve a certain level of material satisfaction then income has very little correlation with people's reported states of happiness, things like climate matter more, things like the culture of the country in which you're raised matter more and so the things really, let's face it, like individual temperament matter more than these things.

Climate, Country, Culture, Done, Matter, Satisfaction

Every country now has its own domestic political debate about how to respond to climate change. This is where the action is.

Action, Climate, Country, Domestic, Political

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

Economic, Environmental, Penchant, Philosophical, Way

Citizens often think of a state's interests in terms of the promotion of ideals such as democracy, a particular way of life, or other values which they endorse or see as part of their historical continuity and identity. In this domain as in others values are not fixed, and so a state's interests are dynamic and in a constant state of negotiation and construction.

Democracy, Fixed, Historical, Identity, Promotion, Thinking

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.

Density, Powerful, Problems, Self, Technology, Unconstrained

Since for me moral demands necessarily flow from human psychology, I don't think we can be obliged to do something that we are not motivated in any way to do. In other words, I'm an "internalist" about morality.

Demand, Motivated, Psychology, Think, Thinking, Words

Since we're not very good at something as basic as controlling our reproduction, life is really bad for more people than ever before.

Good, Life Is, People, Reproduction, Very Good

Well, one measure of a good life, I think, is to be engaged in projects that one thinks are meaningful and worthwhile. So I would put the emphasis of a good life on activity, on the walk rather than the destination, and I think that most of the things that any of us do that are really valuable and really important are projects that we really shouldn't expect to be completed in our lifetime because if they could completed in our lifetime, they probably wouldn't be so important that we should devote our lives to them.

Activity, Good, Good Life, Meaningful, Thinking

We're good at noticing sudden movements of middle size objects in our immediate visual field, but what is out of sight is for us is largely out of mind.

Field, Largely, Mind, Movement, Sight, Size

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.

Animal, Humanity, Include, Lives, Name, Suffering

We're not good at noticing slow, steady changes in our environments, our senses are not very acute compared to those of many animals, and we're pretty awful at abstract thought, much less acting on it.

Acting, Animal, Awful, Compared, Environments

Most of what we think of as distinctively human has occurred in the last 10,000 years in the Holocene - a period in which the Earth was abnormally quiet.

Abnormally, Earth, Human, Think, Thinking, Years

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