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No great surprise there. As usual the idea is to demonize the essential trace gas carbon dioxide, paving the way to useless ‘solutions’ to an imaginary problem. Note: Attenborough is *not* a climate expert, and admits so himself.
The first two meetings of Climate Assembly UK, dubbed a ‘citizens’ assembly’ on climate change, have taken place in Birmingham over the course of a couple of weekends in January and February, writes Ben Pile (via Climate Change Dispatch).
The climate assembly has brought together 110 randomly selected members of the public to discuss a range of climate issues and policies with a range of experts, including David Attenborough.
The task of the assembly, which will meet over two more weekends this spring, is to decide on a set of recommendations for how the government can best meet its pledge to achieve Net Zero carbon emissions by 2050.
The reason for establishing the climate assembly is clear enough. It is an attempt to exorcise the democratic deficit that haunts political environmentalism.
And it seeks to do this by involving a tiny, but supposedly representative sample of citizens in the policymaking process.
But can it really achieve its aim, given it excludes approximately 45 million other members of the electorate from its decision-making?
In short, no. Watching the proceedings of the first assembly, it became clear very quickly that the process is rigged in favor of the environmentalist agenda.
Expert after expert, each echoing the same message, made his or her presentation to the assembly. This was followed by a rapid question-and-answer session in which the assembled were told what’s what by said experts.
It didn’t look much like a democratic debate. It looked like instruction.
These shortcomings should not be a surprise, however, given the climate assembly’s origins.
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