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Food, politics, and the environment | George Monbiot

The Proof with Simon Hill

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The Most Important Things to Be More Active About

The best examples that I point to are generally at the city level where some cities are pioneered a far more democratic situation than permitted by any state. Classic example is Porto Allegri in Brazil, which between about 1989 and 2004 was governed principally by participatory budgeting. And there have been similar genuine democratizations passing the power back to the people in Taiwan, with the V Taiwan program,. In Reykjavik, in Iceland, in Madrid. None of them have yet gone far enough. But you can roll those models out not just citywide, but also nationwide. There's no reason at all why Participatory budgeting wouldn't work at the national level. When people are given genuine

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