Hope is often mistaken for wishful thinking or naivety, as though it asks us to believe everything will simply work out. But hope asks something more difficult of us. It asks us to stay present. To pay attention. To name the uncomfortable truths – and to act on them. Hope is caring for one another in a world designed to isolate you, fatigue you, and make you the perfect consumer.
The first months of 2026 have offered many reasons to feel overwhelmed. Wars continue to reshape lives. Climate change is no longer a distant warning but something woven into everyday experience. Political divisions are deepening, and many of the systems driving inequality and environmental destruction remain firmly in place. Yet, in moments like these, people continue to make ordinary choices that quietly resist despair. They organise, document, rebuild, listen, remember, and refuse to let difficult truths disappear.
Witness 1.26 brings together Greenpeace South Asia’s work from the first quarter of the year through these stories of courage, care, and climate action. It is a reflection on what it means to remain human in a time of overlapping crises, and why hope is not the absence of difficult realities, but the decision to keep acting in spite of them.
