note: We refuse to be guilt tripped into auto-austerity by governments, corporations and billionaires who knowingly cause 90% of the Climate and Biosphere collapse. We are ‘austere’ by conviction. It’s sometimes possible to live well and richly while rejecting the capitalist rat race. e.g. in our Collective we boast about not paying rent or electricity bills for the last 25 years!)
Lambeth council Citizens’ Assembly Lambeth Tackling climate change Lambeth. Lambeth is a big, busy, crowded area of south inner London, working class, mainly immigrant and descendants, with pockets of yuppification. Famous for the Brixton riots and anarcho squatters.
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A ‘Citizens Assembly’ have produced 13 recommendations on tackling climate change in the borough. Citizen’s Assembly’s 13 recommendations on tackling the issue in the borough of Lambeth
Lambeth council say the 50 residents – chosen by an outside organisation – were asked: ‘We are facing a climate crisis. “How can we work together in Lambeth to address climate change and its causes fairly, effectively and quickly?”
Their main recommendations (with others in full below):
TRANSPORT:
To reduce the number of journeys made using private vehicles, Lambeth council together with Transport for London should review existing public transport routes in the borough to ensure greener transport options are introduced effectively and quickly based on user need.
Organisations across the borough should encourage and enable cycling through development of better cycle routes and cycle storage. Lambeth council should play a co-ordinating role, working with: neighbouring local authorities (to ensure continuity at boundaries); local and national cycling organisations (for advice);
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