Dear Friends,

We hope this email finds you well as we share our recent news and activities with you. During the COVID times, when TPNS decided to focus on climate related work with specific reference to the global military, we were in different times. We could not have foreseen the Russian invasion of Ukraine nor – no matter how horrendous the Israeli occupation had been up to October 7^th 2023 – Israel’s decision to implement a genocidal war designed to utterly destroy Gaza and the elimination, one way or another, of Palestinians from their homeland.

The world is now in an insane arms race – $2.4tr annually and rising – and the climate emergency along with basic international development, global health and public services all in the process of being relegated to second place, behind rearmament and talk of WW3.

In every way, we are in dark times.  And the biggest threat to our collective safety – climate chaos – is dropping off the radar.

How on earth can this be?

As ever, it will be down to the tenacity, courage, vision and organising power of civil society where-ever it may be, to push back even harder, despite the deep sadness, despondency and overwhelming scale of the opposition faced – from authoritarian governments locking up climate protesters to genocide-enabling politicians; from amoral and greedy corporate elites to shameless oligarchs.

We have no choice but to resist and to keep hope alive – for the generations to come and for our beautiful blue planet.

Deb & Ho-Chih Continue reading →