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Games are great at motivating action.
This strategy proceeds from the Humean idea that belief alone is incapable of motivating action.
These states of mind, sometimes called 'besires', are said to be of particular interest to ethicists interested in the possibility of belief-like attitudes motivating action all on their own (see, e.g., Smith 1994 chapter 4; Zangwill 2008).
Eliminating or mitigating a harm that already exists is sometimes viewed as being of greater moral importance - or simply as more immediately motivating action - than long-term strategies to prevent a harm from materializing.
These arguments convey Hume's positions that passion plays the dominant role in motivating action, reason a merely subsidiary role; reason cannot control or resist passion's motivational influence; and one cannot use the standards of reason to praise or criticize passions.
To show that meaning facts play a normatively guiding role, therefore, it does not suffice to appeal to the idea that meaning facts play a role in motivating action; it also has to be shown that the motivating role is that of a prescription rather than a belief (see section 2.2 below).
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Ms. Morgan said success would lie in the strength of the consensus and its power to motivate action now to start curtailing the human impact on the atmosphere.
The authors wrote, Communicating climate science and co-benefits of action should be complementary, not competing, strategies... Crucially, addressing co-benefits can motivate action independently of views about climate change importance, even for those unconvinced climate change is real.
Optimists say that policymakers are better prepared to battle deflation because they have studied Japan's experiences and can use them as a powerful cautionary tale to motivate action.
He had a nice metaphor for how he saw the difference between the IPCC and organisations that campaign on climate change, such as WWF, Greenpeace and other groups: The role of the IPCC is not to motivate action.
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