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Open Letter to the UN Environmental Program: The Cost of Not Adopting Fair Start Reproductive Justice Is Mounting
Dear Director Andersen, World Environment Day 2021 provided a crucial opportunity for the United Nations to make good on its promise to reset humanity's relationship with nature. But by continuing to adhere to a family planning model that allows unfettered growth,...
The Fair Start Movement is Here
After five years of research and evolution, we are excited to announce that HavingKids is becoming the Fair Start Movement. This comes from the input of many voices from diverse and intersectional areas in advocacy, as the organization pivots to more of a collective...
Promoting Children’s Welfare Through Parental Choice
Guest author: Jonathan Anomaly Editor's note: Fair Start supporters will recognize that Jonathan's approach could conflict with the Fair Start family planning modeling our organization promotes, but we encourage debate around these issues and appreciate feedback on...
How Does the Fair Start Model Work?
Guest author: Mary Jean We all deserve the best life. Whether you want a happy kid, a happy cat, a healthy environment to live in, or a happy community, all of it can be done with the right policies and carefully designed models. This is where the fair start...
Growth Economics Created the Climate Crisis. Why Are Politicians and Media Pushing Women to Have Kids? Ask NYT’s Editor
Fact: Falling fertility rates and eventual population decline will have the most beneficial long-run impact on the climate and other ecological crises. And yet influential media like the New York Times, and politicians pushed by businesses that rely on unsustainable...
WaPo and the Population v. Consumption Debate: Three Questions to Move Forward on What Is Destroying Our Environment
Kudos to Sarah Kaplan for covering the ongoing debate over whether population growth, or things like inequity, technology, and patterns of consumption, are to blame for the climate and other ecological crises. Is it wrong to blame overpopulation for the climate...
Alexandra Paul is Speaking Truth to the Power of Unsustainable Growth
Kudos to Alexandra Paul for pushing back against the constant media messaging - often promoted by their advertisers - that falling fertility rates are a bad thing. Her recent letter, published in the LA Times, points out what should be obvious: Growth is not...
Joyce Tischler: Protecting Animals Starts With A Better Population Policy
Joyce Tischler is widely considered to be one of the founders of modern animal law and a leader in the field of animal protection. She is affectionately known to the many who admire and follow her as the "mother of animal law." She has inspired generations of animal...
The Fair Start Coalitions Are Growing. Join the Movement
Do you support the simple ideas that 1) parents should be ready before they have kids, 2) that we have a right to distribute resources to give all kids an eco-social Fair Start in life, and that 3) a universal ethic of smaller families for all is the best way to...
Hey @G7, @oceanrebellion calls for an emergency global ban on bottom trawling by @COP26. With stocks 90% depleted humanity cannot continue industrial fishing. Beam trawling alone emits more carbon than all of global aviation. Destroy the seas & we destroy ourselves #MakeTheWave
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"Thousands upon thousands of people don't agree with [Manchin's] economic position, or his position on voting rights, or his position on the filibuster—and it's time for them to speak up.” @RevDrBarber
#MoralMonday March on Manchin 6/14 at 5pm ET! https://truthout.org/articles/poor-peoples-campaign-to-march-against-manchin-obstructionism-in-west-virginia/
Caltrans wants to widen a section of Highway 101 running through the iconic redwoods of Richardson Grove State Park in Humboldt County, California. Take action today to protect these trees. https://act.biologicaldiversity.org/ERdeB2xCV0S3oeOnVZG30A2?utm_source=social&utm_medium=TW&utm_campaign=AA&sourceid=1007206
Urge pharmaceutical companies to ban the near-drowning of animals http://petauk.org/forcedswimaa
