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By Intentionally Ignoring Growth and Inequity Nonprofits, Media and Business Leaders Created a Fantasy World of Progress That Prevented Real Climate Reforms, and Will Kill Millions

Many nonprofits raised billions of dollars over the last several decades claiming to have protected various ecosystems, saved animals from factory farms, hauled children…March 20, 2023 · 8 min read demographic decline Climate Crisis & Ecocide

Your Parents’ Environmentalism Created the Climate Crisis. Do Better.

Large environmental organizations that claimed to making progress were opting for family policies that were undoing that progress, and enriching a few at cost…February 21, 2023 · 2 min read A young girl wearing a yellow long-sleeve shirt is sitting at a table, focused on writing in a notebook with a pen. Sunlight softly illuminates her face and her surroundings. Climate Crisis & Ecocide

The White Supremacy and Ecocide of Our Current Family Policies

Media icons, from Ezra Klein on the left to Tucker Carlson on the right love to push women to have kids as a means…February 18, 2023 · 5 min read A four-panel meme showing brain images that progressively light up as the captions advance: from denying global warming, to recognizing overconsumption, to choosing a smaller family, to advocating for future children’s needs. Campaigns & Accountability

Did You Get Scammed? Businesses, Media and Nonprofits Claimed to be Sustainable. They Were Not.

Google the term "sustainable" and you will find it everywhere. Adorning products and services, in the advertising disguised as journalism you see in the…February 18, 2023 · 1 min read A woman with wavy hair carries a baby in a green sling on her back, standing on a muddy field and looking at cows grazing in the foggy distance. Campaigns & Accountability

#FamScam: You Can Sue Charities for Exacerbating the Climate Crisis

Many nonprofits over the past decade claimed great success in saving animals or children, protecting the environment, or ensuring human rights and democracy. Instead…February 12, 2023 · 2 min read What's an Effective Tactic to Reverse Climate Change and Inequity? Directly Engage Rich Kids like Ireland Baldwin to Pay What They Owe. Climate Crisis & Ecocide

What’s an Effective Tactic to Reverse Climate Change and Inequity? Directly Engage Rich Kids like Ireland Baldwin to Pay What They Owe.

Both the climate crisis and the massive gap between rich and poor fundamentally derive from the same thing: Family policies that exploit the nonhuman…February 4, 2023 · 2 min read Several hands of different skin tones are stacked together. Overlaid text reads, The most powerful social justice is a fair start in life. Join the coalition. The Fair Start Movement logo appears at the bottom. Campaigns & Accountability

The #FamScam: An Open Letter to Earth Justice

Dear Abigail Dillen, Many charities, funded by wealthy persons more interested in protecting their wealth than doing good, push distracting campaigns that do little…February 3, 2023 · 4 min readwe can solve the racial wealth gapClimate Protection

Fair Start Files Update to Our United Nations Human Rights Council Petition: Our Overriding Human Right to Nature and Equity

Yesterday the Fair Start Movement filed an update to its original "Fair Start" filing before the United Nations Human Rights Council. We updated our…January 12, 2023 · 2 min read People coming to pick up grain to fight starvation in Amboseli Climate Crisis & Ecocide

The Test: Is Your Position on Climate Policy Making the Crisis Worse?

Here is a simple test for whether any particular person, corporation, nonprofit, politician, etc. is making the climate crisis worse by adopting misleading climate…November 26, 2022 · 4 min read

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