The public is exhausted by politics saturation, and addressing this crisis isn't their responsibility anyway"Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard," said the American journalist HL Mencken, who died 60 years before the EU referendum but nonetheless seems to have known how things might play out.The British people have spoken and said ... what, exactly? Last week's BritainThinks survey of today's attitudes found rampant pessimism, anxiety and gloom. "I cannot recall a time when the national mood was more despairing," said the research firm's boss Deborah Mattinson. Now we learn that the government is going to give this participatory democracy idea another go, launching a citizens' assembly on the climate emergency later in the year. Continue reading...
The climate emergency needs political action - not citizens' assemblies | Stefan Stern
21. června 2019 15:00
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Celý článek: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jun/21/climate-emergency-citizens-assemblies-public-politics
Zdroj: The Guardian