Jul 31, 2022 | Headlines, News & Updates
As the climate crisis deepens, with massive heatwaves killing untold number of people, many are wondering how the world came to such a state. Many nonprofits have been touting the success of energy efficiency or other campaigns designed to limit emissions. The success...
Apr 21, 2021 | fertility rates, Inequality, Taking Action
In the 20th Century world population growth exploded. That growth is continuing, and fundamentally driving massive inequity of wealth and power between the rich and poor as the conditions of our birth hang upon us throughout our lives. We are getting more crowded and...
Dec 16, 2020 | News & Updates
Having Kids is an international human rights organization dedicated to improving family planning systems worldwide with a simple idea: Every child has a fundamental human right to a Fair Start in life, ecologically and socially, which overrides all competing...
Sep 27, 2022 | Headlines, Inequality, News & Updates
To say patriarchy, or anthropocentrism, or exploitation, would all be correct. But is there something antecedent, something lurking upstream, that precedes these words? Perhaps it is simply the failure to take a base condition like human rights and democracy...
Sep 25, 2022 | Headlines, Inequality, News & Updates
David Leonhardt and others have wisely sounded alarms about threats to democracy in the United States. But their analysis misses the key question: How are we actually empowering people to participate in making the rules under which they must live, and limiting the...
Sep 19, 2022 | fertility rates, Inequality, News & Updates
While the Black Lives Matter movement focused on systemic racism in police violence, that violence was more direct than indirect. A more subtle form of violence involves the combination of massive economic inequity inflicted on black families that has been passed...
Sep 15, 2022 | Headlines, Inequality, News & Updates
The Death of Queen Elizabeth II has saddened millions, but has also raised conversations about the past, race, inequality and political privilege. Fair Start has previously encouraged the Royal Family to embrace more ecologically sustainable and socially equitable...
Sep 15, 2022 | Headlines, Inequality, News & Updates
The founder of Patagonia, Yvon Chouinard has given away the company to an environmental trust and non-profit. All profits will go to the organizations to fight the climate crisis and pursue other environmental goals. The act is courageous and begins to break down the...
Sep 15, 2022 | Headlines, Inequality, News & Updates
Like other top-down concentrations of power that rely on unsustainable population growth to grow their base, Tehran is now moving to force women to have children. According to the Los Angeles Times: Now, ultraconservative lawmakers have combined with the...
Sep 11, 2022 | fertility rates, Headlines
The following article by Dr. Sibylle Frey is reprinted in its entirety from the Millenium Alliance for Humanity and the Biosphere, at Stanford University. Love Polar Bears? Then Have Fewer Children Sibylle Frey | October 16, 2018 | 7 CommentsDownload as PDF...
Sep 5, 2022 | Headlines, Taking Action
Studies are mounting which show the various ways the climate is harming children, including their fetal development. That harm is a violation of the human right to a safe and healthy and sustainable environment and flows from the decisions of people like former Exxon...
Aug 4, 2022 | Headlines, News & Updates
Treason at an existential level does not rely on positive law conceptions of the crime. It simply could mean acting in a way that substantially degrades the security of free and equal people, especially when done for personal gain. Elon Musk, in order to sell more...
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