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The Basic Fair Start Ask: Two Easy Moves to Ensure Stanford University Is Acting in a Fundamentally Just Way
An Alternative Way to Think About Legitimate Policymaking: Always Starting With Birth Equity and Children’s Rights, and Investing in Democracy Rather Than Exploiting Children's Positionality for Economic Growth Dear President Saller, The Fair Start Movement...
Leave Money Made By Causing the Climate Crisis Where It Is, or Save Many Lives?
Would it be wrong for a young woman with little wealth or income intending to become a mother to demand birth equity resources – resources that simply ensure a level playing field for her child and thus offset the harm – from a wealthy family that externalized the...
The Universal Climate Tribunal: What would a climate justice system look like if those who benefitted from and exacerbated the crisis could not interfere?
Why a Universal Tribunal? Reliance on any basic norm, political obligation, or fundamental baseline for cost/benefit assessment other than a just and inclusive (pro)creation norm is a logical fallacy. In other words, to properly assess costs and benefits we have to...
The Basic Fair Start Ask: Two Easy Moves to Ensure You Are Acting in a Fundamentally Just Way
Below is a form letter that can be used to begin to empower a climate justice tribunal that would employ a system of just and effective human rights. Reliance on any basic norm, political obligation, or fundamental baseline for cost/benefit assessment other than a...
Climate Justice and a Growing Fight for Children’s Rights v. Unlimited Wealth Made at Cost to Others
These are some basic facts about climate change: Climate change is now harming fetal and infant health harm, primarily in vulnerable families of color, as heat increases threaten to kill millions in the future. Roughly three quarters of attempts to...
One Basis for Taking Liberating Climate Reparations That Overrides All Others
Freedom really - or physically - means some relative level of self-determination. You would control your life and what influences you. Influence over you would be limited and highly decentralized. And if you wanted to maximize freedom, you would have to create a...
One Way to Test Whether Anyone or Any Organization Is Fundamentally Making the Climate Crisis Worse
Simply ask them: What are you doing to invest in resourcing young women to have their children in a time, place, manner, and with the necessary safeguards that protect those children and their rights, and avoids those children degrading their own environment in deadly...
Don’t get scammed: What is Distractivism and Why Does It Matter For Your Future?
Almost every horrible thing - from child and animal torture, to deadly inequality, to unbearable heat waves - we see in the world today was fundamentally caused decades ago, circa 1968, by wealthy world leader's decision to adopt minimalist universal child welfare and...
Watch Dr. Melanie Joy on Actually Relating to Others, and Ending Injustice Everywhere
Melanie Joy is a familiar name to many, for her work for animals and in challenging a quiet driver of suffering and sadness in the world today: Carnism. About Melanie: Melanie Joy, PhD, is a Harvard-educated psychologist specializing in relationships, communication,...
