Caution is prohibited. It could be considered as contempt, and contempt is the worst political mistake that can be committed these days. We must therefore rave about, get enthusiastic, applaud with both hands and without restraint the work of the Citizen Convention for the climate, this "democratic adventure" in the words of Emmanuel Macron. The President of the Republic has bet to entrust 150 citizens drawn by lot the mission to propose concrete measures that will engage the country in the fight against global warming.
France is reinventing the agora. The draw will be the antidote to the crisis of confidence which affects the institutions. Better still than the renewal of the political frameworks by the arrival of amateurs, one directly entrusts the development of the policy to authentic amateurs. The 150 lack neither courage nor good will. They've already worked hard in five intense three-day sessions, not counting homework
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