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A Citizens’ Assembly on climate change is the coward’s way out

2 November 2019

11:11 PM

2 November 2019

11:11 PM

So is it good news that Citizens’ Assemblies are to sit to decide on how best to address the issue of climate change, one of the most contentious on the political agenda?

The BBC observed this morning that this was something that Extinction Rebellion had been calling for. And that this had already been used in Ireland to determine the abortion issue and in Australia and the Netherlands on electoral reforms.

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