Cyrus Copeland is an author and the executive director of Treedom for Palestine, a nonprofit planting sustainable olive tree farms for West Bank farmers. His last book, Off the Radar, won the Chautauqua Prize, and his work has been featured in The New York Times, NPR, BBC, and Slate.
As delegates gather for COP29 to discuss global climate commitments, there’s a man in the West Bank who knows almost nothing of policy numbers, carbon targets, or finance pledges. But if anyone should be a delegate it’s him. Sunburned and weathered, farmer Motaz Bisharat is deeply rooted to his 2.5-acre plot of green. Here on his small patch of land, Motaz fights two battles with simple tools—soil, sweat, and 250 olive trees.
His olive trees are a bulwark—that last line of nonviolent defense.As if politics weren’t enough, there’s also the matter of the climate. The West Bank is changing rapidly, with hotter summers, longer droughts, and erratic rainfall. A recent PFU report underscores what farmers already know: Reduced crop yields, water scarcity, and soil degradation are now the new normal. Yet olive trees are built for this challenge.
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