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2026 What Does a Global Totalitarian Multi=Polar System Mean for 21st Century Sustainability – A Wake up Call for Tourism Stakeholders

EnviroWindows — 2026-01-01T00:00:00Z

1^st January 2026

Author: Gordon Sillence - ICT Director Tourism 2030. Ecotrans European Network for Tourism Sustainability, Director Schools Can Stop the Wars Educational Support Programme

Subject: sustainable development, global apartheid and Zionism – the rise of Pax Judaica and the failure of Agenda 21; the effects on the tourism sector in America and the Middle East; tourism stakeholder sustainability responses to save civil society and its freedom of movement in the spirit of true sustainable development implementation.

Introduction – the US 2025 Tourism Indicator

The U.S experienced a 9% decline in international arrivals for 2025, along with a projected $8.5 billion decrease (- 4.7%) in visitor spending compared to the previous year. If you haven’t already understood the American tourism sector collapse of 2025 - running contrary to all tourism statistical visitor trends around the world, then beware of the coming geopolitical environment in this last 2030 Policy cycle. America has brought the world towards a multipolar socio-economic crisis that threatens international travel with a host of restrictive trade legislation and the fear of political uncertainty, both creators of wariness and instability in global markets, and therefore an entropic force across international supply chains right down to the local destination level.

In a world of 8 1/2 billion people the movement of 1 1/2 billion annual travellers in a global tourism industry reflect current market capacities for international travel and tourism products and service infrastructure. However the sustainability of the tourism sector supply chain has never been more threatened by geopolitical tensions, economic tensions created purposefully to fanatically fuel the bellicose life blood of competing nation states, all now meshed up and entwined in the international financial complex of the military industrial technocratic modern era.

Totalitarian Tourism – Post Covid Border Controls

Collapse in American tourism numbers has been exacerbated by the perception of the totalitarian Homeland Security state of the USA treating visitors as illegal migrant criminals, and the intrusion into the privacy of the individual in order to ascertain their political beliefs and past activities on social media has given rise to severe negative treatment of incredulous tourists and visitors. Legislation by the USA imposing trade tariffs; imposition of high visa charges as part of their tariff strategy; bans on visitors from a long list of foreign countries deemed to be ‘unsuitable’ by US criteria - all have lead to the restriction in market flows of goods, services, people and of course, money. And now other countries are following suit …

Forget the Covid total collapse of tourism revenues of 2020, this is the full nationalist partioning, segregation and break up of the international tourism travel pie for generations to come. 2026 welcomes in the Billionaire Brave New World of Global Tourism Apartheid. Just look at the Trump reconstruction plan for Gaza as The USA way of financing the future of tourism. Then work out who can afford the room rates, dig up some of the garden and see what tourism apartheid really smells like.

Zionist Deformation of Middle Eastern Tourism

However, this internal shot-in-the-foot impact om US tourism stakeholders by America’s totalitarian military industrial complex - now raising its belligerent ugly head at the end of the 2030 agenda - is dwarfed by the US defence sector’s international impact on the national tourism economies, particularly in the Middle East, where its’ inauguration and support of the 51st state of the USA called Israel has led to the seemingly unending, lucrative, but tragic Middle East theatre of war, now 80 years old or more.

The low level, high financed colonial-settler wars have continued post New Millennium to now completely deform Middle Eastern tourist flows and infrastructure development in countries such as Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, Libya, Egypt, Yemen, et cetera, where the outreach of the Greater Israel project stretches as far as an F-35 or B2 can fly these dark days.

At the same time, alongside the obvious negative impact of war on tourism, we should consider both the immorality and fragility of the Middle Eastern tourism luxury model, in its height currently in sky-scraper capitals such as Dubai and the crowd-captivating stadiums of Qatar, where we can find a completely alternative effect that the military industrial war complex has had on the Middle East tourism sector, in as much as the sovereign wealth of the Arab dictatorships is underpinned by the American governmental, military and corporate beneficiaries and their glorification of oil resource rich palatial luxury living.

The Use of State Terror to Shape Regional Development

Dominance of this region’s governments and resources has provided a modernised post Bretton Woods, post-Soviet oil bonanza for the US Allies who have run their 20^th century protectorates according to the updated post-war protocols that govern to this day, keeping sheiks in power and the war-traumatised Israeli populations as attack dogs of the wealthy politicians, financiers and military families who first designed the Rothchild-Balfour version of the Zionist Israel ethno-state project.

The US and its Allies use the CIA/MI6/Mossad/KGB deep state along side UN Security Council supremacy, and they have conducted generations of public official and covert actions to direct regional influence. Israel has a primary (but now not solitary) role of advancing US geopolitical interests in the region. However, it is the Israeli statehood mechanism that has been used to terrorise the entire region - as planned in the post Ww2 Allied alliance to follow through on British rule in the post war hand over to the new all powerful American empire.

Through state-sponsored terrorism of the cruellest kind, Israeli Zionists created the murderous catastrophe of the Nakba as the opening gambit in 1948. Now today we are witnessing their live-streamed, grotesquely cruel endgame in Gaza, with the torture, mass genocide and starvation of the civilian population in front of our very eyes, covered up by rhetorical hasbara lies. Whilst Gaza becomes a rubble-strewn demolition site and civilian graveyard ghetto, 60km up the coast we see Israelis beaching out in the classic R&R war servicing glamourized urban development of Tel Aviv, where they pride themselves in promoting individual freedom to have fun, whilst actually being the paedophile capital of the world.

The Rise of Sin City

Look back at the rise in the 60s of Far East cities such as Bangkok,Tokyo and other sex, drugs and rock ‘n’roll capitals of Vietnam War immortality that sprang up in and around the Vietnam, Cambodia. Korea snd Laos wars, Cities where prostitution drug-taking and gambling grew up as part of the way the all-powerful institute of the army would service the soldiers they engaged to personally implement the horror crimes of ethnic cleansing and genociding another nation.

Now these megalithic tourist attraction cities with their twin pillars in Tel Aviv and Dubai in the Middle East fully service the modern warfare and financial lawfare perpetrated by the US armies and its Allies. Soldiers and crusaders in the battlefield or in banking and finance can take a rest from their stressful genocidal activities. on leave or on holiday in tourist resorts such as the well located beaches of Tel Aviv or the north coast of Cyprus nearby, or even in Greece and Turquia to add to all their migrant frontier problems – caused by a warring Middle East …

This is how Mediterranean and Middle Eastern tourism is disfigured by the Zionist white supremacist, military industrial complex’s international economic empire. And that is clear for all tourism stakeholders to see - the big corporations have taken advantage of the resource war - bombing and then building, each war an economic cash cow in the Middle East for the international billionaire defence and surveillance contracting elite now controlling the Allied states from a safe well-secured distance in their mansions and bunkers.

Whatever Happened to the Garden of Eden?

And we must also ask: what has been disadvantaged, what could have been? For example the environmental eco-tourism that could’ve taken place in Lebanon or could have taken place in Palestine, based on irreplaceable USP cultural tourism visitor experiences of all the historic sites that Israel has been bombing and obliterating to erase Palestinian history. The socio-cultural and environmental promise of this region’s biodiversity and historic global cultural relevance and what could have happened in the tourism world will now never happen, at least not in Gaza, but could be salvaged on the West Bank.

The free flow of visitors from 400 million Arabs in neighbouring countries forms an immediate economic territory in which indigenous populations and guest visitors could enjoy their own unique culture and history - truly a Holy Land. .Following the duplicitous British empire and exploitative French legacy, Russian interference and dictatorial control over all local cultures and landscapes, the USA has forever scarred that potential of indigenous regional stakeholders being able to support a vibrant, sustainable, East Mediterranean, North African, Eurasian tourism hub.

The Towers of Babylon with the Eye of Sauron

Worse still! Please - not the ghastly vision of Gaza that Trump, Musk and Netanyahu have in mind! Once the genocidal ethnic cleansing of that prime beach front graveyard refugee camp is completed the tourism industry will be brought in to reconstruct modern 5 star pyramid palaces over the broken bones of women and children, complete with full surveillance watchful eye fixed with murderous drone patrol intent at the perimeter wall dividing Gaza in half – again.

But it is the greed and atrocities currently being sanctioned by complicit industry players at this turning point moment, especially in Europe, Britain and the USA, that should disgust us as we look across the well-heeled room of tourism stakeholders, many still profiting form or supporting the Israeli state even through these genocidal days. Our very own nation state leaders are right now legislating the nationalist laws and UN International fork-tongued statecraft that condone, support and fuel the Israeli land grabbing genocide. Who in the sector is standing up to that? Or is CSR just talk?

Their aim is to kill all the cultural legacy and all the birthright that Palestinians and their Arab neighbours have to future sustainability. With the cudgel of anti- semitism and Islamaphobic fear mongering, the ideal of liberal democracies are cruelly morphing into oligarchsl tyrannies, where a few, very few, rich old patriarchs lust and lunch on the bodies and blood of countless famined, brutaliized millions left in war zone horror as 2025 ends.

Project 2025 and the ‘Pax Judaica’

In 2026 the suffering will continue, exacerbated further by more right-wing, elitist, rapacious finance capitalist development. ‘Pax Judaica’ is becoming our reality whatever deceptive spin they put on the 100 year old Protocols of Zion now coming into fruition - the quintessential colonial white supremacist vision of one international globalized elitist governance system firmly in place with all its Zionist policy design, warfare and lawfare authoritarian control. Systems of governance. We are all being placed in insidious digitally-defined systems of social control, led through Israeli state bred RSAs (Repressive State Apparatus - army, police, courts, prisons) and Israeli led IDAs (Ideological State Apparatus- entertainment and news media, schools, families religion).

Under the banner of national security and in the name of individual freedom justice and democracy, they have installed or propped up right-wing neoliberal governments, who themselves are still clinging to crumbling nation state power, yet fully under billionaire technocratic control. And Jewish billionaires now make up a third of that oligarchal club of modern-day pharaohs, plenty of them full of Zionist intent and fully backing Project 2025 in word and deed. Now they have bought or are buying our sovereign governments and media platforms with pieces of eight still plundered in these last decadent days a dying white supremacist racist capitalist colonial-settler empire in decline.

The Failure of Agenda 21 – A Triumph of Evil over Good

Whatever you thought Agenda 21 or its later SDG driven 2030 Agenda variant would bring us, I am sure it was not this unjust, inhumane, deceitful, digitised and divided world at war. Worse still, our new Millennium may even be stillborn should nuclear escalation or accident occur, or the tipping points of Global Change collapse our fragile biosphere. 2026 ticks closet to these End Times events, and most stakeholders still bury their heads in the sand. You just have to listen to Professor Jeffry Sachs to objectively see the abject failure of the UN Agenda for this 21st century.

This is and should be disheartening if you - like me -have been working on sustainability for decades and can recall the enthusiasm of civil society way back then to create a truly peaceful and prosperous planet for all, with no one left behind… What is more disturbing and disheartening is the complete in our faces immorality and duplicity of our colonial government institutions, their corrupted political leading lackeys and their media mogul consent manufacturers. Disgusting. Perhaps Israel’s second worse crime against humanity - alongside is ethnic cleansing and genocidal cruelty- has been highlighted by the pedophile Mossad agent Jeffry Epstein, who built a corrupt financial global political blackmail sextrap network to ensnare for the Israeli state what they could not buy (AiPAC) or who they could not fool (Maxwell).

The elite have lead us to the most immoral of depraved deformed version of so-called civilized society - we live in a narcissistic, evil and sadistic caricature of our collective nobility and humanity. Full human decadence in dark silk suited display on the world’s financial and political stages, propping up the archaic institutions of capitalist oppression, and now tying us up as digital money slaves, fully formed and functionalised though hypnotic technological imprisonment in the home, school and workplace.

Two Tier Tourism Apartheid 2030

In the tourism sector we should seriously ask what sort of tourism does this dystopian future produce, and how far off course the financial-military-industrial-governance complex has blown the ship of tourism sustainability. The elite castles in the sand of Dubai point to one clear aspect of a global apartheid tourism model being implemented as we speak. Mega infrastructures for the rich at the top end of two-tier travel systems, where global apartheid sky roads jet set the wealthy to walled utopia, whilst the bottom feeders of the masses contemplate virtual electro-chemical experiences or even just take in travel ads whilst imprisoned in their physically-or digitally-walled districts, scarcely able to afford an annual travel holiday and likely unable to obtain the right permits anyway.

What We Can Do to Challenge this Descent into Techno- State Barbarism

Sustainable development and particularly sustainable tourism practitioners now need to find ways to avoid such a dystopian travel & tourism future, and take steps towards policy design and implementation programs for the realisation of civil society’s free to travel world, providing life enhancing experiences that fuel cultural integration, innovation, peace, happiness and wellbeing - for all, with no-one left behind… So, once these above issues are rea - then comes the response.

All stakeholders have a role to play. Or rather three roles:

humanitarian actions;
political actions; and
communication actions.

For example, Palestinian children need our support right now, whilst they are being systematically brutalised, bombed, shot and starved to death by the US/Israeli state. They need humanitarian assistance right now.

Politically, the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions work and the fight against Israeli Zionist lawfare must be considered with practical steps made to delegitimise the Israeli state in the UN and disband its IDF and Mossad military terrorist arms, with full reparations the right of return and thr end od Israeli Apartheid ethno-state policies.

Finally every communication we make should counter Israeli hasbara so narratives can be fact-checked, and the immorality of zionism and its global apartheid grip can be exposed and then refuted through truth and honesty.

The power of the pen is greater than the sword, and now we must use our words to instigate right action to defeat those cruel and criminal state terrorists masquerading as defenders of our democratic rights. To conclude this example we should all:

call for a ban on Israeli state and private sector attendance of tourism events such as ITB - German tourism stakeholders must really get a hold of this issue as silence is complicity. Boycotting travel to Israel - just as South Africa was boycotted until they dismantled their apartheid state; and
excluding Israel from sports and cultural events must be called for.
Support for the recovery of Palestinian tourism should be put in place, especially with the restoration of cultural heritage sites and encouragement of tourism business activities.
Finally lobbying our own governments to reject Zionist policy influence, repeal harmful Islamaphobic legislation and stop all arms and military cooperation, these are important stakeholder actions.

All can be taken legitimately under the auspices of SDG 16, Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions, so please add this to your 2026 New Year’s resolutions. Better still, write it into your business strategy or policy document if you are at work. Better still, work with others to create the world we would rather live in.

For further information please contact Gordon Sillence at Gordon.sillence@gmail.com or see Schools Can Stop the Wars

GEO 7 report calls for collaboration: transformation pathways for 5 key areas

EnviroWindows — 2025-12-11T00:00:00Z

Nairobi, 9 December 2025

GEO7 report "The Future we choose"

The new GEO7 report "The future we choose" is the most comprehensive assessment of the global environment ever undertaken. It has found that investing in a stable climate, healthy nature and land, and a pollution-free planet can deliver trillions in additional global GDP, avoid millions of deaths and lift hundreds of millions of people out of poverty and hunger.

Sweeping transformations required

Following the transformation pathways would require sweeping changes across five key areas. The report outlines recommended measures for each area, including:

Economy and finance: Move beyond GDP to comprehensive inclusive wealth metrics; price positive and negative externalities to value goods correctly; and phase out and repurpose subsidies, taxes and incentives that result in negative impacts on nature.
Materials and waste: Implement circular product design, transparency and traceability of products, components and materials; shift investments to circular and regenerative business models; and shift consumption patterns towards circularity through changing mindsets.
Energy: Decarbonize the energy supply; increase energy efficiency; back social and environmental sustainability in critical mineral value chains; and address energy access and energy poverty.
Food systems: Shift to healthy and sustainable diets; enhance circularity and production efficiency; and reduce food loss and waste.
Environment: Accelerate conservation and restoration of biodiversity and ecosystems; back climate adaptation and resilience, leaning on Nature-based Solutions; and implement climate mitigation strategies.

The report calls for a parallel co-development and co-implementation of such solutions. Considering diverse knowledge systems, especially Indigenous Knowledge and Local Knowledge, is crucial to just transitions that address both environmental sustainability and human well-being.

The GEO7 report with more than 1000 pages includes many illustrations, e.g. for nature based solutions or behaviour focused pathway implications

Urgency of Collaboration

The report calls on governments, non-governmental and multilateral organizations, the private sector, civil society, academia, professional organizations, the public and Indigenous Peoples to acknowledge the urgency of the global environmental crises, build on progress made in recent decades, and collaborate in the co-design and implementation of integrated policies, strategies and actions to deliver a better future for all.

From sightseers to stakeholders: how travellers can help protect our oceans

EnviroWindows — 2025-07-28T00:00:00Z

by Brent Fisher, 28^th July 2025, Content Strategist

Swimming, paddling, surfing, or diving; however you explore the oceans, being able to be in the world’s waters is one of the most enjoyable parts of any holiday or travelling experience. Something that might not be the first thing you think about, though, is how sustainable the way tourists use the ocean.

Factors such as overcrowding (increasing demand on seafood and other resources), pollution (from litter or certain chemicals in suncream, deodorants, or similar), and irresponsible practices (such as poor coastal development or physical wildlife interactions) can cause damage to marine ecosystems.

Source: https://alchemy.gr/post/1032/should-we-ever-interact-with-sea-creatures

While the location of a new hotel may be outside of your control, there are things you can do as a responsible traveller to help protect the oceans you enjoy. You can go from a sightseer to a genuine stakeholder – someone who is invested in the future of the planet. Here’s just a couple of ways how:

Do your research: who you’re giving money to?

First things first, it’s important to consider who you’re giving money to. Depending on where you’re visiting, there may be an abundance of providers fighting for your custom, or you may have limited choice. But don’t let that influence you. Research the companies available and what they do to minimise the impact of their operations on the immediate environment.

For example, if it’s a diving or boat tour provider, do they operate with experienced professionals to avoid boats dropping anchors directly on reefs that can destroy delicate marine habitats? Or, does the hotel you’re planning to book with have a responsible waste management programme to avoid rubbish ending up in places it shouldn’t?

Companies that consider the environment should have details on their websites of the steps they take to engage in eco-friendly tourism practices. They might also be affiliated with certain recognised organisations, such as The Green Fins initiative, which supports sustainable marine activities.

Buy and use responsible products

Simply being in the water (or sitting on the sand) can have an impact on the health of corals. So it’s important to wash off any products which may contain chemicals and only use reef-safe suncream free of harmful chemicals like oxybenzone and octinoxate. These creams tend to be mineral-based, using materials such as zinc oxide and titanium dioxide to create a physical barrier that reflects UV rays away from the skin, rather than absorbing them like chemical sunscreens.

You can protect the ocean even when you’re far from it too, by being careful with the products you use. For example, avoid microbeads, which have tiny particles of plastic that wash into the sea and don’t break down.

https://www.originaltravel.co.uk/tourism-and-ocean-sustainability-facts

Plastic is still a huge threat to the ocean, with eight million tonnes ending up in the ocean every year. What’s perhaps more pertinent, though, as this sustainable travel guide highlights, is that the rate at which plastic enters the ocean increases during peak tourist seasons. If we continue to be irresponsible in the way we buy, use, and dispose of plastic at the same rate, we’ll find ourselves in a position where there is more plastic in the seas than fish by the end of 2050. It’s something you may want to think about if the temptation of another plastic souvenir catches your eye.

Here, we’ve focused on just two ways you can contribute to the positive synergies between nature protection and tourism. But hopefully it shows that even small, simple changes can make a big difference – simply being mindful of how your choices impact the environment will make you a more responsible traveller, and will inevitably lead to more eco-friendly choices along the way.

CONTACT: brent.fisherconsulting@gmail.com

MORE ON:

The Green Fins initiative: Protecting Coral Reefs Through Sustainable Tourism
Dive centres, snorkelling centres, and liveaboard businesses join Green Fins to protect the marine environment where they operate. Choose a Green Fins Member for your next underwater adventure.
https://greenfins.net/

Sustainable Travel Guide Highlights : 40 Facts and statistics about tourism & ocean sustainability
https://www.originaltravel.co.uk/tourism-and-ocean-sustainability-facts