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Dr. Phoebe Barnard on Fair Start Revolutions
“"We are at a crossroads of human civilization - where we find ourselves facing many symptoms of ecological overshoot playing out in our climate, the loss and degradation of Nature and environmental resources, and social, economic and political tensions. From floods...
Dr. Breeze Harper, on the Primacy of Black Birth Equity
"I advocate that Black birth equity, through reparations, should be the primary action taken to resolve consequences such as corporation induced climate change -- in particular, because those who are negatively impacted the most are Black communities in...
Take Action: The Fundamental Driver of the Climate Catastrophe – the “I” word – Few Will Discuss. Have the Discussion.
A mistake in mid-20th century environmental policymaking allowed extreme wealth to be made at deadly cost to others, and according to a growing body of peer-reviewed research, in violation of the most fundamental human right. As the climate worsens we can move that...
The False Premise We Can See All Around Us, and the Deadly #ImpactFraud it Allows
A phrase like "false premise" sounds like philosophy talk, and hardly relevant to our day to day life. But all it really means is that someone is making an argument, or doing something, which they would justify by referring to something that is not true. The premise...
What Does Fighting for Freedom Look Like Today?
Free people feel obligated to follow the law because their legal system first empowered them - through birth and development conditions, with with a role in making the law and and thus ensuring the capacity for each to choose who has influence (including...
Governments and Other Institutions That Kill Their Innocent Citizens Become Illegitimate. Why Is the Climate Catastrophe Any Different, and What Do We Do About It?
According to a growing body of peer-reviewed research, systems that provide no minimum protections for the most vulnerable, protections like equitable birth and development conditions for children and thus protections for the environment they will need, lead to...
Pope Francis and the Vatican Owe Future Generations the Wealth They Took
The Vatican has for decades urged family planning policies that attempted to grow the base of the church, and its income, in a way that destroyed our environment and now threatens to kill millions. Their policies enriched themselves at deadly costs to others. ...
Don’t Get Scammed. Some Nonprofits Are Undoing Their Own Work by Quietly Putting Their Funders’ Wealth Over Their Mission.
Ask any nonprofit: What are you doing to assure the conditions in which children born and raised, including their environment and role models, are being improved so as not to undo the benefits of the work you discuss? Does the entity you are asking have any minimum...
Fair Start for Kids
A lot of what we see around us, and what we think, is affected by our unique position in the world and our pasts - the way our genetics impact our thinking, what we experienced in our lives, and what we were taught. But some things are objectively true,...