"What the “Israeli experience” truly illustrates is that decarbonization must be coupled with decolonization. Apartheid technology is not the solution to a livable present or future."
" “The environmental struggle is seen as a struggle of the privileged, especially when so many believe that nothing is more important than our national security,” Ya'ara Peretz says."
"One proposal is to pump water from the Red Sea to replenish the Dead Sea using a new pipleline. But the environmental impact of such a scheme is controversial, the costs enormous and the completion date 2022 at the earliest, by which time the Dead Sea will have dropped by another seven metres."
"Another issue is the impact the pipeline may have on the ecosystem of the Red Sea, as coral reefs are highly sensitive to a change in currents, which the pipeline redirection may cause."
"Rehabilitation will take months, if not years .. This is one of the State of Israel's gravest pollution events. We are still having trouble gauging the full extent of the contamination."
"greater desalination capacity won't cause the Israelis to alter the status quo vis-a-vis the Palestinians for one key reason; Israel does not have to. The leverage that the Palestinians and their advocates in the region and around the world have over Israel's water policy is unfortunately minimal."
"Despite the fact that Israel is the only country to enter the 21st century with a net gain in forest growth, Green activists today are among the most virulently anti-Jewish. "←イスラエルにおける植林事業の「裏」の意味を理解してないんだろうか?