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Simon Winchester: Land - How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World
Land - Pastor Tutu - White has the Bible and we have the land. When we close our eyes and prayed, after we open our eyes, we have the Bible and they have the land.
Surveying problem, inaccurate - India Pakistan Good survey - Durand Line Afghan and Pakistan
One sided border - Great Wall
- The American Revolution and George VIII decision of forbiding land transferal across the Al. mountain range. - how come the court in London decides what happens in America.
- Community owned land - bulk purchaes and development.
- Reclaim land from the sea, the story of Netherland
- The aboriginals sad treaty stories in the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
- The clarance and enclosure movement in Ireland and England and its respective consequences.
- The incentive of ownership of land, in the westward movement.
- War and the land, the Japanese people in the west coast United States, particularly in the California.
- The logic of Crown land - the God owns all the land, Queen is the representative of God, thus the Crown should own all the land.
- Right of ownership varies, some prohibit trepassing, some allows nearly all activies.
- The argument of the Holy Land, Zionism, the Christian movement in the UK in handling the chaos in Jerusalem
- Returning the land to black people in Africa
- The polluted land in Denver
- The rising sea level and the threat to the coastal land, but impacting the poor not the rich
Winston Churchill remarks in 1906
is a necessity of all human existence, which is the original source of all wealth, which is strictly limited in extent, which is fixed in geographical position – land, I say, differs from all other forms of property in these primary and fundamental conditions.
The Satire of 1997
The Scots, meanwhile, have taken something of a giant leap forward. That Scotland has been permitted to diverge at all from its English neighbors and rulers in matters relating to land stems wholly from the result of a Scots-only referendum that was held in 1997, in which a sizable majority of the country’s four million voting residents agreed that Scotland should devolve some its powers from the authority of London, and run much of its own affairs on its own, independently. Accordingly, since 1999 Scotland now has had its own 129-member Parliament sitting in Edinburgh, and although in a further referendum in 2014, its voters opted to remain in the United Kingdom, the country’s nationalist leanings have steadily intensified, accompanied by a fiery determination to undertake changes and reforms that remain unpalatable south of the border.
Ukrainian Soil
I spent some weeks in the searing summer of 2019 traveling down the Dnieper River valley, south of the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv, into a region as much the breadbasket of southeastern Europe as Kansas and Nebraska are the granaries of the United States, and Saskatchewan and Manitoba of Canada. The landscape is rolling and lush and very, very fertile. High hedges or lines of tall poplars wall off fields that in the high summer are butter yellow with acres of wheat and or deep green with corn, brilliant yellow with rapeseed, or paler green with soybeans or broccoli, potatoes, barley, beet, or sunflowers. Some eight million acres of Ukraine’s land is rich with thick, black soil, soil so obviously fertile that it almost looks good enough to eat without any tiresome need to pass vegetables through it. The endless fields stretch to the horizon—more human-scale here than in the American prairies, since there are hills and streams and patches of forest rich with wild boar, pigeons, and partridges. The farmers here are as happy a breed as farmers are ever likely to be, proud of their land, thankful for the riches that are the bounty of this very special portion of the Earth.