Forum:Genuine community involvement is particularly needed in our response to climate change and sustainability

The original version of the following is a comment posted to Unlock Democracy

Genuine community involvement is particularly needed in our response to climate change and sustainability.

Citizens’ juries, even if hyped up as 'summits' (summit of what?), have, as Peter points out many limitations. As the Phillis report (January 2004) said, we need continuous dialogue. We also need a way for genuine community involvement in local decision making and even trans national conversations. Solutions exists to help with all of this. Unfortunately not only governments, but also establishment civil society and NGOs, continue to ignore them. See also Forum:Will Gordon Brown be remembered for fiddling with community involvement while the planet burns?, on the Sustainable Community Action wiki.

This comment/article was first published on the Sustainable Community Action wiki. Philralph 09:38, 14 September 2007 (UTC)