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How can democracy enable the scale of change required to tackle the climate challenge?
Liberal democracy is coming apart, under threat from the rise of populism and increasingly unable to deliver the solutions to the multiple challenges facing society. We urgently need bold and radical ideas - not just for the policies we need to tackle the many crises we face - but for the processes necessary to unlock that change.
The climate crisis requires radical interventions in the economy, especially in challenging expectations of exponential growth and adds another layer of complexity to challenges facing democracy.
Caroline Lucas MP is joined by Professor David Runciman to explore the range of approaches needed to confront this multifaceted concern, and whether deliberative processes can offer a practical way forward to engage citizens more directly in political decision-making and strengthen representative democracy.
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In terms of dealing with climate change and other existential risks, I think it helps to have a goal. The goal I and my colleagues champion is to ‘transition to a life-affirming culture, rather than continuing on our present course of ecological self-destruction’.
‘A life-affirming culture’ encompasses the aspirations and activities of the millions of groups working on different aspects of environmental and social well-being.
In my view, it can and should serve as a guiding goal for society at large. Therefore those of us who care about a positive future can make common cause in championing this meme.
There are other possible ways to express the same goal. That’s fine. The important thing is to have a positive goal, and thereby not be fixated in policy analysis and protest.