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Switzerland is the most democratic country you can find on earth. The population has an enormous power to compell the government. If Switzerland does too littl
by constantcrying 3y ago
Switzerland is the most democratic country you can find on earth. The population has an enormous power to compell the government.
If Switzerland does too little for the environment it can not happen against the will of the population. Surely having some foreign court compell them makes them overthink their wrong choices.
- unglaublich 3y agoWell, actually it can. For example, there was 'Popular initiative “For responsible companies – to protect people and the environment”' [0] which got voted NO because of electoral votes, even though it received the popular vote at 50.7%. Same reason as in the US: electoral votes overrepresent low density, conservative areas. [0]: https://www.ejpd.admin.ch/ejpd/de/home/themen/abstimmungen/verantwortungsvolle-unternehmen.html https://www.ejpd.admin.ch/ejpd/de/home/themen/abstimmungen/v...
- erinnh 3y agoNot sure what the point of this argument is. Are you saying that human rights cannot be violated if a democratic decision was made beforehand?
- constantcrying 3y agoNo, but the human rights violation here is being committed by the Swiss, who apparently didn't vote hard enough for climate change laws.
- morby 3y agoYou seem very confused by this in your comments. Did you read the article? The Swiss government was found to be out of line with its own policies and laws.
- ceejayoz 3y agoSaid democracy voted to ratify the ECHR in the 70s and re-voted to retain it in 2018. https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/press-release/2018/11/switzerland-defends-human-rights-in-referendum/ https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/press-release/2018/11/swit...