Living With Populism

Any attempts too counter climate change rest with an educated and informed populace.

Shlomo Ben-Ami.

The causes of climate change are relatively easily understood, but to achieve clarity to matter deserves, people must be both educated and informed.

Any workable and useful solution to climate change hinges on governance.

Interestingly it was in 1867 that British statesman, Robert Lowe, told his colleagues “We must educate our masters”.

Lowe said that an educated populace was the best means to secure participatory governance in Britain.

He was speaking after the passage of the Second Reform Act of 1867, a British law that added over a million voters to the Parliamentary Register.

Writing on Project Syndicate a former Israeli foreign minister and Vice President of the Toledo International Center for Peace, Shlomo Ben-Ami, said: “But 150 years later, the educated “masters” of liberal democracy have apparently learned little. Lowe, one may assume, would not be impressed with the populist trends pulling the wool over their eyes”.

Read Ben-Ami’s story - “Living With Populism”.