LRB Vol.38 No. 21 2016
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| Naomi Klein |
"Edward Said was no tree-hugger... he once described environmentalism as ‘the indulgence of spoiled tree-huggers who lack a proper cause’.
In the Middle East… trees specifically, have been among the most potent weapons... of what some call ‘green colonialism’. But the phenomenon is hardly new, nor is it unique to Israel.
There is a long and painful history in the Americas of beautiful pieces of wilderness being turned into conservation parks… and used to prevent Indigenous people from accessing their ancestral territories to hunt and fish, or simply to live.
It has happened again and again. A contemporary version of this phenomenon is the carbon offset. "
