Most Good, Least Harm: A Simple Principle for a Better World and Meaningful Life.
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“With an amazingly useful way of thinking and acting, Most Good, Least Harm is multi-faceted in its utility….The innovation in this book is…spreading a message of being socially, politically, and environmentally conscious when making decisions.”
~ Jordan Dacayanan, Sacramento Book Review
I love stories about people who forego their privileges for a greater good, who are willing to risk their high status and river of lucre to do what is right. In a recent New York Times op-ed, Nicholas Kristof writes about Wendell Potter, a former executive in the health insurance business, who crafted the fear-mongering [...]
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I’ve received a bunch of comments on my blog post about the Whole Foods boycott. Most are positive. But one commenter wrote this: “How can a blog called ‘Humane Connection’ defend a CEO who has bragged about cutting his healthcare benefits and is trying to deny healthcare to millions of Americans? There’s nothing humane about [...]
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One of the readers of my Human Overpopulation: The Taboo Topic post sent me an email which launched an interesting exchange about despair. He wondered whether despair was the ultimate taboo topic, especially for activists. In my years as an activist there has been a profound shift among those who work for change. Instead of [...]
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On August 11, the Wall Street Journal published an op ed by John Mackey, CEO of Whole Foods, about health care reform. Since then, there’s been quite the brouhaha, and many have called for a boycott of Whole Foods because John Mackey expressed his opinion on, and put forth his own ideas for health care [...]
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