What Happens When Members Of The Public Are Asked To Solve The Climate Crisis
Not long after Extinction Rebellion shut down London, the British government declared a climate emergency. As we know, however, declaring a climate emergency and then actually doing something about it are very different things. There are plenty of non-green things the British government continues to do, but one particular aspect of their response is profoundly interesting to me: They convened a Citizens’ Assembly on climate. Consisting of 108 ordinary citizens—drawn from a random pool and selected to create a representative sample of the population at large—the assembly brought to Birmingham, in the Midlands, for a series of four weekends....