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UPDATE: VALUING NEGLECTED COMMUNITIES AND GENDER IN ADDRESSING THE CLIMATE CRISIS IN THE GLOBAL SOUTH.
The climate crisis is not a distant threat, it's is an urgent challenge for all of us, particularly in global south where vulnerable communities bear the brunt of climate crisis and inequalities impacts. As the world going with rising temperatures, resource depletion...
The Most Effective Public Interest Work You Can Invest In
The Fair Start Movement arose from a growing body of undisputed research that traces the climate and political crises we all face to a very specific mistake, made decades ago, in reproductive rights policy making. Because we collectively used a false assessment and...
Vox’s Coverage of the Climate Crisis, Oligarchic Threats to Democracy, and Animal Rights Does More Harm Than Good. Act.
If you comb through coverage on the Vox news site regarding a variety of issues - including the environment, population, democracy, animal rights, etc. - you will see something odd. They never trace all of these problems back to the source: Unsustainable and...
The Basic Mistake Driving the Climate Crisis
The book Winners Take All helps us understand how philanthropy over the last decades failed in ways that ensured the climate crisis. But author Anand Giridharadas, @anandwrites, misses the most salient example of the failure: How we collectively violated children’s...
Violating Children’s Right to a Fair Start Did More Harm Than Pew Trusts Has Done Good. Act.
A recent article has quoted Pew Trusts on the threat smaller families and eventual population decline pose to our future. That hides the fact that the organization for decades has violated most of its mission parameters by relying on unsustainable and inequitable...
A Story About Deadly Privilege: Why the World Needs Fair Start Reforms
Violating children's right to a fair start in life, or what they are owed under the Children's Rights Convention, has done more harm to public interest efforts than any organization has done good because 1) it has allowed inequitable growth - the greatest driver...
Urge Justice Expert Martha Nussbaum to Back Fair Start Reforms
Martha Nussbaum is a leading thinker on matters of justice, including justice for animals. But she never accounts for the a primary obligation to create just and mutually empowering relations, in the actual birth, development and emancipation of the humans who will...
Urge Harvard’s Michael Sandel to Tell the Truth. Take Action.
Professor Michael Sandel is a leading thinker in political philosophy and justice, and his work has helped define the field. But as the climate crisis intensifies and kills millions who had little role in causing or exacerbating it, and at a time where a small...
What is a Fair Start in Life?
Sufficient funding that ensures no child is born beneath a set level of entitlement, consistent with the Children’s Rights Convention (“Convention”) and Right to a Healthy Environment, is exponentially the most just and effective way to protect our future and...