Citizens Assemblies: a Silver Bullet for Climate Change?
When it comes to the environment, participatory decision-making seems to be remarkably effective at achieving desired outcomes both in terms of sustainability and in terms of fairness. A much-cited study by researchers at Harvard and Yale revealed that people in the present do, in fact, care about future generations. When split into groups and asked what to do with a given pool of resources, a full 68% of individuals chose to use their resources wisely, saving a sustainable a