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The Fair Start Revolution: Taking Power From the Top to Empower Future Generations
Elon’s Musk’s Starlink satellites are creating massive sky pollution and ruining stargazing; his commercial interests are creating "space graffiti" in the night sky and obstructing astronomers' observations. Can we solve this problem in a way that could apply to other...
How the Animal Rights Movement Fails Animals
The voices of animal-rights advocates have become more prominent in social justice circles, and The New Republic magazine recently pondered whether animal rights is the next frontier of the left. It's inescapable, the argument goes, because animal rights overlap with...
Tell Pope Francis That If He Wants Equity, He Should Support Fair Start
Pope Francis recently renewed his plea for economic equity in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic, lamenting the failures of free-market capitalism as the massive gap between rich and poor grows. But is he missing a simple truth? If we want to effectively address...
World Children’s Day: Our Open Letter to Barack Obama and Kamala Harris
To the Honorables Kamala Harris and Barack Obama, Today is World Children's Day, the special day designed to promote international togetherness, awareness among children worldwide, and improving children's welfare. Our organization, Having Kids, is writing to you as...
An Open Letter to Matthew McConaughey: Help Us Do Better
Dear Mr. McConaughey, We appreciate your breaking taboos around discussing families and wealth with your public statements recently regarding raising your three biological children to embrace being born affluent and to not feel guilty about that, but instead to "own...
The Idea of One Billion Americans: Are We Missing the Point?
Matthew Yglesias' new book, One Billion Americans: The Case for Thinking Bigger, is the thought experiment the title implies, exploring policies that might increase the population of the country threefold, using incentives to create larger families and increased...
Urge Time Magazine to See Falling Fertility As An Opportunity, Not A Crisis
Time recently highlighted the issue of changing fertility rates as a harbinger of a new era for the United States. But the author, Eliana dockterman, errs in thinking changing our old ways, where unsustainable population growth meant free money in the form of new...
Who’s Pushing Poor Family Planning?
Younger generations are responding to the climate and other ecological crises by doing the most effective thing possible: Choosing smaller families. And while that's great, there is still a lot of work to be done today, like enshrining the change in our laws and...
Worried About Bringing a Child Into the World? Speak out Here.
Many young people around the world are rethinking becoming parents, and are deeply concerned about bringing a child into a world beset by a climate crisis, pandemics, and growing inequity and civil strife. Why are we faced with this? Almost every crisis before us –...
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