“…Recent research has analyzed concerns about environmental pollution, planetary connectedness, and climatic change as politics (e.g. Agrawal, 2005; Barnes et al., 2013; Bishara et al, 2021, this issue; Guarasci, 2015, 2018; Günel, 2019; Haraway, 2015; McKee, 2018; Martinez-Alier, 2003; Ogden et al., 2013; O’Reilly, 2017; Tsing, 2005, 2015; West, 2006, 2012, 2016). I draw from these conversations to propose that, while West Bank Palestinians have arguably lived nonsovereign since 1967, this failure-to-build temporality takes on its distinct moral valence from the contemporary way that actors now ruling Palestinian life—Israel, donors, the PA—define, evaluate, and determine the environmental standards for Palestinian infrastructures (Stamatopoulou-Robbins, 2014).…”