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Ending the Greenwashing Lies: All about the Fair Start Certification
By Esther Afolaranmi In the battle against misleading environmental claims, the Fair Start Certification emerges as a beacon of transparency and authenticity. This innovative certification program stands at the forefront, aiming to dismantle the deceitful practices...
How Does Degrowth Actually Work? LEED Co-Founder’s Open Letter Supporting Fair Start’s Climate Campaign Protecting Children
IPCC’s repeated Planetary 2030 Climate Crisis Carbon Pollution Reduction Deadline, requires roughly an 840 gigaton / $30 trillion reduction, which includes accelerating positive feedback loops like wildfire pollution and methane releases from melting permafrost...
What is the Fair Start Fund? Learn More.
How do we ensure funding that ensures young women harmed by the climate crisis can have their children at a time, place and with resources the protect their and the child's equity? Problem: Climate and other ecological crises are set to kill million of those least...
Millions Will Die in the Climate Crisis. You Can Peacefully Avenge Their Deaths and Prevent More.
Many will die as the climate crisis quickly unfolds. And yet over the last few decades politicians, oil CEOs, scammy nonprofits, and others blocked reforms that could have saved many of those lives. And they did it by lying about what we owe children, and the mothers...
What Is the Fair Start Movement?
The extreme wealth we see in the world today was made by through a system of unsustainable growth, and illegitimate cost/benefit models, that forced costs on most vulnerable and degraded the climate in a way that is taking millions of innocent lives. The most...
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. Summary of the issue Reliance on any basic norm, political obligation, or fundamental baseline for cost/benefit...
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 mitigate the...
