- It is also impossible to separate causes and politics in the way that the Schelling Foundation, and other institutions, want to. The theme of this year’s prize was ‘Deep Transformations – Earth, Landscape, Architecture’. In their public statement announcing the rescinding of my prize, they wrote that my ‘publications on the complex relationships between society, technology and ecology have significantly enriched the current discourse’. They fail to understand, or choose to ignore, how my politics are of a piece with my philosophy. I write about the beauty, personhood, intelligence and vitality of all beings on this Earth. In Gaza and the West Bank, and now in Lebanon, they are burning the olive groves. Since 1967, an estimated 800,000 Palestinian olive trees have been destroyed in the West Bank and Gaza Strip by Israeli authorities and settlers. Genocide is ecocide; ecocide is genocide.
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