Editor’s Note: The following is a call to action from the Palestinian BDS National Committee. Mondoweiss occasionally publishes press releases and statements from organizations in an effort to draw attention to overlooked issues.
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The increasingly catastrophic climate crisis, fueled by global inequality, has been engineered by complicit corporations and governments that put profit before people and planet.
The least powerful are the most affected by the climate crisis. With no control over their land or natural resources, indigenous Palestinians under Israel’s repressive regime endure climate apartheid.
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Water, air and soil pollution caused by Israel’s blockade of and wars on Gaza poison life there. In the rest of the occupied Palestinian territory, Israel steals Palestinian land and water, and destroys hundred-year-old olive trees and solar energy installations.
Israel works to “greenwash” its image. Yet Israel is developing major gas fields for export, and 97.7% of its electricity production comes from fossil fuels. Warfare, a regular activity of Israel’s government, is also one of the world’s most polluting industries.
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“Israel is developing major gas fields for export, and 97.7% of its electricity production comes from fossil fuels”
Natural gas is a fossil fuel, though the global warming emissions from its combustion are much lower than those from coal or oil. Natural gas emits 50 to 60 percent less carbon dioxide (CO2) when combusted in a new, efficient natural gas power plant compared with emissions from a typical new coal plant.
What are the Palestinians doing to combat climate change?
* answer not forthcoming*
Israel on target to have 10% renewable energy by next years.
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/business/.premium-israel-poised-for-energy-revolution-as-solar-prices-fall-1.7187095
Oh, I’m sorry. I thought BDS just wrote that 97.7% of its [Israel] electricity production comes from fossil fuels.
I think that Israel should state for all the world to see what it would consider a fair and final settlement of the problem and see how the Palestinians and world opinion respond. If climate change is an overriding problem then it provides a further reason for removing a conflict which must be distracting all concerned from cooperation on that and all matters for the benefit of humanity.
I rather expect to hear that, on the contrary, Israeli leadership in controlling climate change is so vital for humanity that the distraction from the world-saving good work caused to Israel by the Palestinian problem needs to be minimised and therefore that Palestinian complaints need to be vigorously ignored. I think that this will be false but somehow that we will hear quite a lot of it, ie the coopting of the climate change problems to preserve the power structures in which the Western political and intellectual class still quite firmly believes.
Just to add that the classic 2ss, not that this is Israel’s proposal but it is the West’s flickering dream, is screamingly unfair in objective terms.
@Jackdaw
“Hamastan resulted from Israel’s unilateral departure from Gaza and Israel isn’t going to make that same mistake”
Au contraire mon non – brave ” ,Hamastan ” was Israel`s creation long before Sharon decide to extract the looney tune Zio settlers from Gaza.
https://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/ron-paul-israel-created-hamas/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7grSsuFSS0
“With no control over their land or natural resources, indigenous Palestinians under Israel’s repressive regime endure climate apartheid”
Bedouin Life in the Egyptian Wilderness by Joseph J Hobbs contains a good deal of information on the traditional environmental management of indigenous Arabs, window on a much misrepresented world and its people. The foreword by Leo Tregenza available at link is really wonderful.
https://www.amazon.com/Bedouin-Egyptian-Wilderness-Joseph-Hobbs/dp/0292707894