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Abortion Bans, Climate Crisis, and Attacks on Iranian Women: What’s Hiding Behind It All?
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...
How the New York Times Undercuts Democracy by Ignoring Its Source
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...
Pro-birthers Pushing Scarlet Letter and Other Misogynistic Laws Are Worsening the Climate Crisis. Push Back.
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...
The Death of Queen Elizabeth II Raises Valid Concerns About Race, Inequity, and Privilege
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...
The Patagonia Giveaway: What Really Matters for the Climate? It Tries to Capture the True Cost of Wealth.
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...
Iran Moves Towards Forcing Women to Have Children. Will the United Nations Step In?
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...
The Climate Crisis is Harming Kids Before They Are Born. Target Those Responsible.
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...
Elon Musk Pushed for a Larger and More Powerful China Even as It Threatened Us. Is That Treason?
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...
The Dos and Don’ts of Helping Kids Make Healthy Choices
By Guest Contributor Amanda Henderson Healthy living is more than eating vegetables and getting in a daily workout. It is a comprehensive lifestyle that nourishes minds, bodies, souls and the environment. Learn how you can encourage healthy living while avoiding...
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