Guest essay by Eric Worrall
[UPDATE: Edited from Penn State to University of Pennsylvania 8:43 am Pacific Time ~ ctm]
h/t Nick – If there was one Israeli initiative you would think radical greens would support, that would be Israeli efforts to restore ancient forests and improve national CO2 sequestration with a massive tree planting programme.
But no – according to Penn State University of Pennsylvania Student organisation “Fossil Free Penn”, the tree planting initiative is environmental racism.
Penn Students Hold Presentation on Environmental Racism
The student group Fossil Free Penn held a discussion on environmental racism as part of its weeklong engagement project called “Divestfest” Wednesday afternoon.
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In discussing environmental racism, the speakers highlighted the Israel-Palestine conflict. The Jewish National Fund, an organization that plants trees in Israel, was a major subject of discussion. After asserting that the organization acted unjustly by purchasing land from Palestinians in the early 1900s in deals from which the Palestinians did not profit, the presenters looked into the symbolism of “making the desert bloom,” a phrase the students argued connected the forest environment to whiteness, evoked the notion of “a vacuum that the European savior can come nourish,” and ultimately incentivized “artificially making these areas look more like Europe.”
The students found a particular problem in the planting of pine trees in Israel and the West Bank, drawing a “connection between pine trees, forestation, and the way they further the colonialist agenda through capitalistic (sic) means of timber production.”
While pine trees are an invasive species and can be bad for certain environments, the solution is not merely to plant native trees like the olive tree.
“If we are talking about environmental justice, we have to consider intersectionality,” one of the presenters said. “We have to consider the way that different environmental agendas are being used in order to romanticize and support things that may be in violation of human rights and ancestry rights.” Additionally, the students urged the audience to “look for the complexity in the way that issues are whitewashed.”
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Read more: https://statesmanonline.org/2017/11/03/students-hold-presentation-on-environmental-racism/
Penn State University of Pennsylvania , the place where your kids can learn from greens that planting trees is wrong, unless they are planted by people with a politically acceptable pedigree.
Of Course they ignore that Lebanon has had such a planting program for quite some time.
http://www.voanews.com/a/american_aid_helps_lebanon_replant_its_cedar_forests/1574227.html
Of course this program is good, even though it is doing exactly the same thing.
The UN wants to outlaw “cultural appropriation,” so everything the young people are repeating about “environmental justice” now is grooming them for the next UN policy. I think every crop and every conceivable item can potentially be outlawed based on this reasoning. What a bunch of sticks.
I believe if you look at CEDAW, you will see the entire UN plan to eliminate gender from children’s educational materials. As any one can see, the treaty is now rapidly proceeding in Canada and the US, whether we signed or ratified it or not. (So in the end it will be more convenient just to call every one Comrad. But where has that happened before…)
this post takes a completely
simplistic view that ignores all
aspects and subtleties of a difficult
political situation.
just to try to
score what it
thinks might be a point. sad.
Yes, your post does, doesn’t it?
“this post takes a completely
simplistic view”
ALL your posts do that, crackpot
No need for the preface !!
They are EMPTY loads
of child-minded nonsense.
If planting trees by the Israelis is `environmental racism’ then the salting of the Palestine soil by the Mamalukes in the 13th century is even more so and a huge environmental vandalism. The Israeli effort is actually a timely repair of that Historical Vandalism. Good for the Israelis. Plant more trees.
Oliver Rackham’s book “The Making of the Cretan Landscape” is well worth reading. He was one of if not the expert on woodland in the UK, as well as doing extensive research in the Mediterranean area.
There is also the story of the son taking his blind father to their native village. The father was riding a donkey and kept leaning low over the donkey’s neck. When his son asked why, his father said that he didn’t want to hit his head on the low lying tree branches. What the father didn’t know was the trees had been felled to provide fuel for the Turkish railway locomotives (as mentioned above).
Once the trees were cut, the local goats prevented any natural regeneration. Much the same happened in Scotland where the original pine forests were felled in the 18th century to provide charcoal for iron smelting and the land was then turned over to sheep farming with the same effect on regeneration.
There is a current move in certain areas towards ‘rewilding’ where the sheep are removed and the land allowed to regenerate a semblance of indigenous native vegetation. The next step is intended to be reintroducing some ancient animal species such as wild boar, elk, deer, beavers, with wolves and lynx to help stop the previous herbivore getting out of control. The only problem has been the high fences needed to keep the inmates inside have stopped the Scots from wandering wherever they want under the Scottish Parliaments recent legislation allowing the right of free access to all land and water (except for the curtilage of private houses).
Thanks to the popularisation of coal and coke from 1800 onwards, the forests of Europe were saved from total destruction and are now regrowing.
Thanks Michael Darby.
That’s the most sensible statement made by anybody in 2017.
If only the green-left had the courage to face that reality the world would be heading to a better place.
On a similar tangent, thanks to the use of kerosene instead of whale oil for lamps, the world’s whale populations were saved from total destruction.
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Whenever dealing with attacks on Israel, it’s important to keep in mind Natan Sharansky’s 3D’s of Anti-Semitism:
http://www.jcpa.org/phas/phas-sharansky-f04.htm
You can’t ever satisfy the lunatic green fringe, so why try? University of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania State U., they’re all way out in left field (so to speak) when it comes to the sovereign rights of Israel and their unabashed support for Al Gore’s and PSU’s Michael Mann’s chicken little act. They are academic fascists. I always say the climate change “crisis” would be non-existent if not for impressionable school children and gullible college students who have forgotten the importance of scientific inquiry and skepticism.
The Kitos war was when Jews slaughtered 500,000 Romans, eating and wearing the flesh of their victims.
Nice to see the hasbara brigade out in tribal force, virtue signaling for their supremacist cult of “chosen ones”
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Some historians consider Cassius Dio’s estimates of fatalities to be exaggerated. But, yes, a lot of Roman soldiers and many mostly Greek-speaking civilians were killed during the Kitos War by Jewish rebels.
AD 115-17, for anyone unfamiliar with the period, under Emperors Trajan and Hadrian, second and third of the “Five Good Emperors”.
Amusingly, the Jan/Feb issue of the alumni magazine didn’t have an article on a rather unobscure graduate of the Wharton School, the current president of the United States. Nonetheless, a great educational institution (in the past) with a Nobel Laureate in my med school class, and another 2 years later.
May God almighty help these poor, lost souls. But, I’m afraid, there is absolutely nothing He can actually do.