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Do we own the land or does the land own us?
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Uploaded on 01/09/2008
What is our relationship with land? Do we own land, and if so does that really mean? Does it give us the right to do whatever we want with it? Does that mean that we can mistreat it, abuse it, even destroy it? Many people are starting to look at this question and re-evaluate what land ownership really means, and the responsibility of taking care of land, the earth and our environment. For thousands of years indigenous people around of the world have been a living example of how to live in relative harmony with nature and the environment, how to be stewards of the land. In our present environmental crisis many things need to be change in order for our planet to survive, and foremost among these is changing how we think about the land.
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To think that any of us individually has an absolute right to own a piece of the earth is preposterous.  Taken to its logical extension, it means that some have the right to deny others the right to live.  Every person has to live somewhere.  Yet if land can be owned privately, then that means a small group of people can own all the world's land, and have the right to deny access to that land to others, in effect allowing them to deny others the right to live.  The land is something to which we all have equal right.  Those who take land from the commons should compensate society for its loss, and that land ownership should be understood as a conditional right, not an absolute one.
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