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[-] Beaver@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 months ago

There is research that under proportional representation democracies perform better on climate action.

Source:

https://policyoptions.irpp.org/magazines/october-2020/breaking-through-on-climate-action-and-electoral-reform/

[-] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I don't doubt that. All I said is that it's not a panacea. As I said, I would be very happy for PR to be a thing here. Once you make the government more proportional, you then need to actually make everyone give a shit about fixing problems. To get everyone pulling in the same direction on some of these issues is going to be an extremely uphill battle.

A significant chunk of Canadians think we are currently doing too much to mitigate climate change, that we should not endorse urbanist policies in our city planning or transportation infrastructure, and that we should reduce social programs that help people with addictions.

[-] Beaver@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 months ago

I agree that education needs to be ramped up because the public lacks understanding in many key areas.

[-] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca -1 points 4 months ago

Yes, and as we've seen, when you make changes to education which are intended to push a specific political agenda, it always galvanizes opponents of that agenda to go out and vote. So we need to be very careful how that sort of thing is handled.

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