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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...
A Fundamental Policy Mistake in 1968, and 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...
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,...
What Could a Second American Revolution Look Like?
Of course, no one knows. But these facts might indicate one way it might go: There is massive inequity that largely tracks race, based largely on inherited/unearned wealth, that means some have much more power than others, undercutting the democracy many died to...
Toddlers Are Tortured to Death Because We Don’t Ensure Fair Starts in Life
A two-year-old was recently tortured and killed by his parents. Roughly five kids die at the hands of their parents each day. Why? This happens, fundamentally, because we do not ensure family planning policies that ensure all children a Fair Start in life. Those...
Did Peter Singer really advocate for animal liberation?
Peter Singer has promoted consumption-based veganism, quite effectively. And at the same time, he has avoided taking a position to change family policies in a way that would benefit animals. We can summarize that approach as: "We should help animals by not eating...
The New York Times Can Do Better on Family Policy Reporting
The New York Times recently reported on China leaning on women to have more kids, in the middle of the climate crisis, with no way to assure they will thrive in the future. The reporting does not cover how the United States does the same, through media - including the...
Childhood Climate Displacement: A Firsthand Account
On August 24th, 1992, Hurricane Andrew slammed into Miami. They called it “the Big One” with winds recorded at 177mph. At the time it was only the third category 5 storm to hit the U.S. since 1935, making it a precursor to the category 4 and 5 storms that now make...
