The sad thing about #COP26 is that it will be like all the other COPs - a great big international prisoners’ dilemma where everyone screws everyone else in self interest. Thus screwing themselves too. Unless... ⬇️
John Rawls’ “Veil of ignorance” is one way around this. Imagine on clicking your fingers you’re given an equal chance of becoming anyone else on earth.
If you had a chance of waking up as a Mauritian in a “sinking” country, would you still stall on climate talks? In practice⬇️
If you had a chance of waking up as a Mauritian in a “sinking” country, would you still stall on climate talks? In practice⬇️
In practice how can you do this? In science we use “blinding” to remove bias. We give you the statistics of each country - pollution data past and present etc and we ask you to decide who should have which net zero target.
We just don’t tell you which country is which⬇️
We just don’t tell you which country is which⬇️
Instead of using negotiators, we use a random assortment of international citizens, paid for their time in a big Citizens Assembly. Their job - to dictate the year the owner of each (still hidden) dataset should achieve Net Zero, + the sticks and carrots used to aid progress.⬇️
Surely this is the fairest and most decent way to decide, and far better than what we have now - An 195-way stalemate.
What does twitter think??
What does twitter think??
