One of our Trailblazer organisations, The Environment Foundation, has just become The Foundation for Democracy & Sustainable Development – and, as Chairman of the Foundation, I co-wrote (with Foundation Director Halina Ward) an article on the theme for openDemocracy, which published it yesterday to celebrate the second annual International Democracy of Day.
Missed posting this link because I was in Plymouth, having been delayed for some while as we travelled westward when our train hit someone who had decided to commit suicide. The central question in our article, not meaning to be offensive, was whether the world’s democracies will respond in good time to this century’s great challenges, climate change in particular, or whether they will unintentionally commit collective suicide as problems outpace solutions – and darker political options are embraced.
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