Citizen science offers the possibility of a science for the people, by the people. And it could be used to challenge the status quo.
France’s Convention for the Climate, held from 2019 to 2020, brought together 150 randomly selected citizens and asked them define measures to reduce the country’s greenhouse gas emissions by at least 40% by 2030 compared to 1990.
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Decision-making bodies created by random selection, citizens’ assemblies are creating a sense of optimism about democracy among those who have heard about or taken part in them.
Participants on a Women’s March rally in front of San Francisco’s City Hall in 2019.
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