The Fair Start Movement
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The Fair Start Movement is a children's rights movement that advocates for intergenerational justice. It does so through equity-based birth entitlements to improve the environmental and social conditions into which children are born - using metrics like the Children's Rights Convention.[1][2][3][4][5] The movement considers these entitlements a fundamental condition of self-determination, the basis for political legitimacy. Proposed investments include incentives for fertility delay, baby bonds, and climate migration funds to assist families relocating to safer areas that will be less impacted by the climate crisis.[6][7][8][9] The Fair Start Movement has the potential to serve as a vehicle for climate reparations[10].
The concept of birth entitlements merges the objectives and goals of social justice, reproductive justice, and environmental justice, with their amount, use, and prioritization informed by concrete metrics centered on children's rights.[11][12][13][14]
Legal Theory[edit]
The Fair Start Movement operates from the Zero Baseline Model,[15][16] which suggests that theories of legitimacy and political obligation should prioritize intergenerational birth equity. This involves raising children according to principles that allow them to negotiate the terms of any social contract as free and equal individuals, rather than focusing solely on abstract considerations.[17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24] The necessity to ensure an eco-social fair start in life is partly based on the recognition of ecocide and Earth overshoot as an existential threat to current and future generations.[25][26][27]
See also[edit]
- Children's Rights Movement
- Convention on the Rights of the Child
- Universal Declaration of Human Rights
- Steady State Economy
- Rewilding (conservation biology)
- International Conference on Population and Development
- Intergenerational Equity
- Cycle of Poverty
- Economic inequality
- Sustainable Development Goals
- Universal Basic Income
- human right to a healthy environment.
References[edit]
- ^ "How Subsidizing Delayed Parenthood Will Let Children Lead the Way to a Fairer World". Retrieved 2024-04-24.
- ^ Dillard, Carter (2021-09-28). Justice as a Fair Start in Life: Understanding the Right to Have Children. Eliva Press. ISBN 978-9975-154-89-5.
- ^ Frey, Dr Sibylle (2022-10-13). "The Costs of Creation: Carter Dillard's Review of "Birth Rights and Wrongs", a Response by Dov Fox and a MAHB Commentary". MAHB. Retrieved 2024-04-24.
- ^ "How a 20th-Century Family Planning Agenda Fueled the Climate Crisis". Observatory. 2024-07-05. Retrieved 2024-07-05.
- ^ "What's the Fair Start Movement and How it Leads Us Towards a Better Future: An Interview with Carter Dillard". Youth Time Magazine.
- ^ "From Social Justice to Animal Liberation" (PDF).
- ^ Tennent, James (2017-12-18). "Paul Ryan is being offered $25,000 to have a vasectomy". International Business Times UK. Retrieved 2024-04-24.
- ^ Weisbrod, Katelyn (2021-11-16). "More Young People Don't Want Children Because of Climate Change. Has the UN Failed to Protect Them?". Inside Climate News. Retrieved 2024-04-24.
- ^ "Being Free Means Getting Climate Reparations Right: But Not Everyone Is Onboard – OpEd". MAHB. 2023-08-09. Retrieved 2024-04-24.
- ^ "Climate Reparations For a Brighter Future - Getting Everyone Onboard".
- ^ "Duchess of Cambridge and Prince William urged not to have a third baby". 2 August 2017.
- ^ "MLC Foundation" (PDF). www.mlcfoundation.org.in. Retrieved 2024-04-24.
- ^ Singer, Samantha (2018-03-26). "Group points to Murfreesboro case to stop neglectful parents from having more kids". WZTV. Retrieved 2024-04-24.
- ^ Dillard, Carter. "Open Letter to COP 28 Leadership: Correct Your Deadly Cost/Benefit Modeling, and Then Say and Act on These Eight Simple Words: All Children Deserve a Fair Start in Life". fairstartmovement.org. Retrieved 2024-04-24.
- ^ "Carter Dillard (Uehiro Centre, University of Oxford ; University of Oxford - Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics) has posted Fundamental Illegitimacy (Willamette Law Review, Forthcoming) on SSRN".
- ^ Dillard, Carter (2021-07-19). "Constituting Over Constitutions". University of Bologna Law Review. 6 (1): 48–75. doi:10.6092/issn.2531-6133/13299. ISSN 2531-6133.
- ^ "Behavioural changes for climate action with Michael Shank from Carbon Neutral Cities Alliance". thegreenroom.simplecast.com. Retrieved 2024-04-24.
- ^ Dillard, Carter (2011–2012). "The Primary Right". Pace Environmental Law Review. 29: [v].
- ^ Hamity, Matthew; Dillard, Carter; Bexell, Sarah M.; Graff-Hughey, Catharina (2019). "A Human Rights Approach to Planning Families". Social Change. 49 (3): 469–492. doi:10.1177/0049085719863894. ISSN 0049-0857.
- ^ Dillard, Phoebe Barnard, Carter (2022-07-10). "Access to Family Planning Takes on New Urgency in a Post-Roe, Hotter World". Ms. Magazine. Retrieved 2024-04-24.
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- ^ "Inside the Fair Start Movement". Ruby Warrington. Retrieved 2024-07-06.
- ^ "Could U.S. Constitution Hold Key to Solving the Climate Crisis?".
- ^ "State abortion bans create new governmental obligations for children".
- ^ Loki, Reynard (2024-04-26). "Should harming mother Earth be a crime? The case for ecocide | NationofChange". Retrieved 2024-07-05.
- ^ Singer, Jasmine. "Whether or not to have kids amid the climate crisis".
- ^ "It's Earth Overshoot Day, and Future Generations Are Calling | Opinion".