While Israelis and Palestinians fight, climate change threatens the land
Gershom Gorenberg writes: A century ago, Egyptian explorer Ahmed Hassanein found pictures of animals carved in rock in the depth of the Libyan desert. “There are lions, giraffes, ostriches, and all kinds of gazelles,” he recorded. It was evidence that the surrounding area had once been verdant savanna. A prehistoric shift in climate, from natural causes, had made the land unlivable for beasts and humans. I thought about that desolate place recently as I looked at the pale splotch of…