IN STEREO

We must save the natural heritage, especially today. I mean, the most destructive factor of nature nowadays is the human being. Look, drought and fire are coming at us. It’s been about twenty years that Palestine has been in a drought. So the rain that comes isn’t sufficient for trees. For example, look at this tree’s height. This year, there was a good season – but there will be a complement, they call it. You have to give it more, you see? We water it from the spring. Every day, they give us a water tank. I pull a hose and I bring it here. I water it from here; it starts to distribute water to itself. Look, it became green, good… I mean, water helps. Water revives. Life is water. Today people are suffering a lot.

The climate has changed here. Winter is not winter, and summer is not summer. I mean, you saw how the weather was yesterday – blazing! It was forty [°C]. It’s never been like this in history. And we put T-shirts on in February! What did old people used to say in the past? “If there’s sun for a day in February, the season is over.” One day! There were some years when it ceased [raining] in February. You know when it ceases in February, it’s a catastrophe. So the climate has changed. When the climate changed, trees changed too, you understand? Now it rains at the beginning of the year and becomes sunny – [so] in December and January, trees blossom, you see? The trees have gone crazy. – Salah