As another climate conference kicks off there are more deadly emissions being released that ever before. 

Want to understand the most just and effective solution to many of the world’s crises, like climate change, today?

Ask anyone proposing an intervention to tell you how they have been accounting for children as a key factor in their work. Factcheck it with AI. You will be surprised. 

Inequitable growth has put more animals and children in conditions of abuse, neglect and suffering than any organization has been able to save, and that’s before we factor in compounding factors like the climate crisis, and the decline of democracy. 

We rarely talk about how growth and inequitable birth positionality undo the very work we claim to be doing because it benefits those at the top, often the same people funding us. But the truth is this: It’s illegal and unethical to assess value and report impact while omitting key facts, manufacturing numbers, and ignoring the real costs. Those omissions enrich a few while disenfranchising and endangering others—mostly children of color. Decades of this deceit have led, quite literally, to the deaths of millions. 

Measurable political equity is a necessary condition of being free, but the privatization of reproductive rights in the Twentieth Century made assuring that equity impossible. The fix is to require it as preemptive standard today, implemented through fundable birth equity standards. 

No child is worth more than another. 

Take Action: Engage those, like Bob Sternfels, who benefitted from a system that has killed millions to tell the truth and change course and move towards Fair Start Certification.

The core discourse to engage in the solution:  “_______’s claimed value add does not account for political inequity, which is caused by our all treating children of color as deserving of less than white children, something that has for decades slowly disenfranchised at risk communities. That’s illegal, and a mistake that caused horrible outcomes that are undoing our claimed value add to the world, including allowing our governments to never actually empower the people they claim to represent. Use of any standard that ignores political equity means actively harming others, while slowly disenfranchising persons of color. Choose the Equity/Fair Start standard instead. Freedom is universal democratic empowerment, not exploiting arbitrary but massive differences in birth positionality and empowerment.” One is either part of a system of mutual obligation, or not, and asking these questions helps determine where others stand.