With Love, From David
A love letter to humanity and to all life on earth by Greenpeace Australia Pacific CEO David Ritter, with reflections on our journey through uncertain and contested times, towards a safer flourishing future.

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From Brazil, with love
About halfway through the most recent United Nations’ annual climate change conference, COP30 in Belém, Carolina Pasquali, my counterpart at Greenpeace Brazil, started to lose her voice. She was suffering…
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River of Life
Nature is not only mother to us all, but our shared witness. Because truly, we are never alone when in the hallowed company of the elements, and life of the…
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Peace through action
Whoever you are, wherever you stand, whatever you do, there’s a part that each of us can play to address this moment of planetary crisis.
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Love in Canberra
When I mentioned to a couple of colleagues that I was planning to write my next letter to you about a recent campaign trip to Canberra, they were hesitant; I…
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The alchemy of grief and love
How do you hold on to hope, to the possibility of change for the common good, in the face of overwhelming grief or anger?
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The love of the Whistleblower
One fresh early morning spring back in 2018, I was huddling with a couple of colleagues on a sturdy wooden bench in one of Sydney’s inner city parks. None of us were carrying our mobile phones.
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Home, heart, and hope
There’s something incredibly precious about getting a warm invitation to the house of a stranger.
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A love letter to strange creatures
Did you love dinosaurs as a child? Personally, I remember going through an intense phase of obsession with the prehistoric world as a young kid.
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Touch has a memory
As a poet once wrote, touch has a memory. To know touch is to have lived.
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Hello and Goodbye
Saying ‘hello’ and ‘goodbye’ are two of the most significant things that we do in life.
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Our longing for home
I’d like to begin this letter to you by sharing a story.
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A love letter to humanity and to all life on earth by Greenpeace Australia Pacific CEO David Ritter.