![]() What would have happened had the numbers not been thousands, but tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands or millions?Įvery week for more than a year, thousands of desperate young Palestinians from Gaza risk their lives in order to protest at the fence separating Gaza from Israel. Thousands came to Israel’s border with Syria in the Golan Heights, and Israel was able to offer a humanitarian response by providing food, water, medical care, and some immediate protection from the violence of war before sending them back to Syria. A harbinger of the future, however, was the rush of Syrian refugees to Israel’s border in order to seek food, medical care, and protection. The Syrian civil war may have removed Syria as a serious geopolitical threat to Israel, but it brought with it Russian and Iranian military presence, creating a political conflict which has brought Israel closer to war on its northern border with Syria than it has been since the end of the ’73 War. Among its root causes was a drought in the east which sparked a mass migration west towards urban centers and created a toxic mix of poverty, desperation, tribal clashes, and resource competition. It is enough to look at the Syrian civil war. The political, social, and economic collapse of Israel’s neighbors, due to the impact of climate change, combined with already weak and corrupt governance, is imminent and is not, as some might believe, a good thing for Israel. Palestine, Jordan, Egypt, Syria and even Lebanon, never mind the countries in the wider MENA region, are ill equipped to face continued drought, crop failure, biodiversity loss, the spread of disease, failed economies and political instability resulting from climate change. What Israel’s leadership is missing is the fact that, while spaceship Israel may be immune to some of the direst consequences of a warming planet, its neighbors are not. The Israeli government does not deny that climate change is coming, but believes that it is prepared to meet the challenges of climate change through its own high-tech leadership in water, energy, agriculture, and smart systems. The Israeli establishment, however, still sees existential threats in terms of conventional and non-conventional weapons in the hands of regional players, including terrorist groups like Hamas and Hezbollah. #THE CURRENT GLOBAL WARMING PARADIGM SHIFT IN SCIENCE IS SERIES#The recent UN report on species extinction has sparked a series of global reactions and has spawned a new wave of environmental activism in Israel. The Climate Change Strikes, led by Greta Thunberg, a 16-year-old environmental activist from Sweden, are raising the alarm that climate change is real and its impact may even be more immediate and more devastating than expected. Annual Reports, Financial Statements & Publicationsĭespite the United States administration’s denial of climate change as an existential threat to humanity, citizens around the world, especially young people, are not in denial.Annual Cross-Border Environmental Cooperation Conference.Applied Environmental Diplomacy: Pathways to Sustainability in the Jordan River Basin.Center for Applied Environmental Diplomacy.Arava Alumni Peace & Environmental Network.Daniel Fischel & Sylvia Neil Outdoor Research & Visitors’ Park.Research in Political Ecology in the Middle East.Jordan-Israel Center for Community, Environment & Research.Center for Transboundary Water Management.Center for Renewable Energy and Energy Conservation.Glickman Peace-building Leadership Seminar ![]()
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