Will Citizens' Assemblies Save the Planet?
Leslie Anne Duvic Paoli makes the case at TEDxModena that randomly selected citizens' assemblies — freed from electoral pressures — are uniquely capable of recommending bold, science-aligned climate policy that elected governments cannot.
Why this matters → Where elections reward short-termism, assemblies create space for long-term reasoning — which may be exactly the institutional innovation climate policy requires.
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