Rob Hopkins of the Post Carbon Institute thinks the UK’s Climate and Ecology Emergency bill could spark just such a revolution:
“The Bill’s demand for a Citizens Assembly could be central to this. I remain convinced that, if done well, Citizens’ Assemblies can be a key part of the solution. I have seen then done well, and I have seen them done not so well. They need sufficient time for participants to really go on a journey of understanding, they need to not be just about information, but also need to make space for digestion, for contemplation, for grief and for imagination.
But when done well, they can be deeply transformative, unlocking a collective wisdom and mature thinking on behalf of future generations that our current democratic system could only dream of. The power here though is in the possibility it offers for this embrace of new democratic models to not stop there, but to run through society, with greater local democracy, with Peoples’ Assemblies, Civic Imagination Offices, the raft of deliberative democracy approaches spreading wide and fast. “
For the full article go to: https://www.postcarbon.org/why-the-climate-and-ecological-emergency-bill-could-lead-to-a-revolution-of-the-imagination
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