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The very essence of civilized culture is that we deliberately institute, in advance of the happening of various contingencies and emergencies of life, devices for detecting their approach and registering their nature, for warding off what is unfavorable or at least for protecting ourselves from its full impact.
Dale Jamieson
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now only use four-letter words Writing prose — Anything goes.
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Dale Jamieson
Born:
October 21, 1947
(age 77)
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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.
Known for:
Love in the Anthropocene (2015)
Ethics and the Environment (2008)
A Companion to Environmental Philosophy (2001)
Morality's Progress (2002)
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