Dear Stakeholders,

Year after year, we continue to experience more extreme and erratic weather patterns. The last few months have seared themselves in our minds as some of the hottest in recorded history. Our summers are getting hotter and longer. Our rainfall is getting less predictable—more extreme in certain places, less so in others. Yet, hope floats in all of us.

Dear Stakeholders,

To safeguard the human species from foreseeable extinction, the SpaceX Mission envisages a habitable world on Mars—in the face of any major catastrophe. It is, indeed, a unique publicprivate initiative. While it is important to root for this ambitious initiative’s success for humanity’s greater good, the immediate thought is that, perhaps, we first need to learn from our mistakes on this planet before inhabiting another.