SECTION 3: DARE TO STRUGGLE, DARE TO WIN
REPAIRING HEALTH CARE AND PUBLIC HEALTH
GREENING ECONOMICS AND POLITICS
The Dalai Lama wrote the Forward to Child Honouring: How to Turn This World Around (Raffi Cavoukian and Sharna Olfman, editors, Praeger, 2006), and the book was praised by people praiseworthy in their own right, including: the integrative medicine pioneer Dr. Andrew Weil, the Honorable Roy J. Romanow (former premier of Saskatchewan), Vandana Shiva (physicist, activist, author), Dr. Fraser Mustard (Founding President, Canadian Institute of Advanced Research) – as well as the three people quoted below.
Varda Burstyn’s “A World Fit for Children” was the political manifesto for the book, a “global green deal”, addressing issues such as assessment, funding and enforcement – pragmatic plans for a way forward, a way to make the world fit for the healthy existence of not only children, but for all life.
Praise for the book:
“For new ideas and a clear vision of how to reshape ‘a world fit for children,’ by all means read this sobering, salutary and inspirational book.” (Stephen Lewis, former Canadian Ambassador to the United Nations)
“Child Honouring is a bold vision for a humane and sustainable world.” (Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Environmentalist, author of Crimes Against Nature)
“This excellent book exposes the corporatocracy that challenges the very essence of good parenting by putting profits before children. It heralds a major shift in priorities for detoxing the womb environment and assuring that each child reaches its fullest potential as a human being.” (Theo Colborn, Ph.D., co-author of Our Stolen Future, and president, The Endocrine Disruption Exchange (TEDX) )
Varda’s chapter: “A World Fit for Children”
