Land

Simon Winchester’s book on property

This we know: the earth does not belong to man, man belongs to the earth. All things are connected like the blood that unites us all. Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself. – from Chief Sealth’s letter to President Pierce on a treaty giving much of what is now Washington state over for white settlement

Winchester details many of the outrages that have been inflicted, in the name of seizing land, on indigenous people across the planet, Australia, New Zealand, and the USA figuring large in these. But there are also plenty of other people who have been expelled from their homes, livelihoods, and history by the forces of greed across the planet. These include immigrants to the USA whose land was stolen while they were illegally incarcerated, and farmers who were dispossessed by land-owners seeking to maximize the profitability of their holdings, via the Enclosure and Clearance laws passed in England and Scotland. Then there are the perennial turf battles, like those in Ireland and the Middle East. – Will Byrnes

Land – whether meadow or mountainside, desert or peat bog, parkland or pasture, suburb or city – is central to our existence. It quite literally underlies and underpins everything. Employing the keen intellect, insatiable curiosity, and narrative verve that are the foundations of his previous bestselling works, Simon Winchester examines what we human beings are doing – and have done – with the billions of acres that together make up the solid surface of our planet.

Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World examines in depth how we acquire land, how we steward it, how and why we fight over it, and finally, how we can, and on occasion do, come to share it. Ultimately, Winchester confronts the essential question: who actually owns the world’s land – and why does it matter? – promo for the book

Winchester learned his new property had been owned or settled by:

-communities of Mohican Indians
-communities of Schaghticoke Indians
-three Dutch stadholders
-English monarchs
-the loyalist Philipse family
-unknown farmers, hunters and charcoal makers
-the Brasher family
-a Sicilian immigrant named Vacirca
-a German American named Doll
-a Sicilian American named Cesare Luria
-the author Simon Winchester

Chief Standing Bear 1879. Declared a person under the law. Still took his peoples land.

First person who claimed sole ownership of land began civil society, modern age. Rood bad others did abuse him of that notion saying you are lost. But clear it happen so clearly.

Earth to no one. Fruits to all – Rousseau. Assumes personal ownership, fixed demarcated. People planted, farmed yet didn’t own. Shared access

37 billion acres of land.. Rights. Exclude. Occupy. To clear

Rights. Possession, control, enjoyment, exclusion

Chap1

Hour in. Assumption before agriculture in meso/Europe all people HG.

With agriculture cones need to Denmark land, ownership. Presented as forgone. Plenty of communal farming, not mentioned .

Chapter 5. English naps. Cones with concept of freedom. Though owner privately land can still be accessed by all. Maps indicates how access gained.

Tragedies of commons

Enclosure and Clearance.

Enclose remove from common use to sole ownership. 5,000 acts. Starting in 13th century. Legal process started 16th. Put large tracts in hands of gentry.

Assignment. To graze and get firewood. Commonly owned and access Dealt with in different ways by communal agreements.

Became contentious deeds drawn to clarify but use to take. Based on efficiency. If served public good.

Tragedy of common would abuse the land. Take more fir self.all do and ruin it.

Private prop with inheritance not fair but “best” more land.

Clearance

George Ranfil lucengauer

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Leveson-Gower,_1st_Duke_of_Sutherland

https://www.scotsman.com/whats-on/arts-and-entertainment/scotlands-most-controversial-statue-1441111

Killed people, burn houses. Be off today or kill and burn. Burn crops drive people away. People went to city or out to empire went to Canada or us. Plenty of labor available. But lots died.

Land oweners. Biggest monarchs. Bhutan Saudi Arabia, England. 32 nations she owns it all. 6.6 billion acres.

Australia 6 million accord

Gina Reinhardt 29 million acres. Iron ore and sheep. Climate skeptics. Stop winging and work more.

Since 2007, amount of land owned by largest us owners doubled. Cattle, lumber.

Stimpson- lumber Oregon

Marin’s lumber Louisiana

O’Connor’s ranch Texas

Haymers West Virginia

Bristol and King Texas

Pinggreys maine https://mbjv.org/the-pingree-family/

Reeds Oregon

Emerson in California

Irving. St John. Canada

New landowners

Ted Turner: 1 million.

John Malone liberty media. Sirius, Expedia. 2 million. West cattle. New Hampshire and Maine. Nor preserve but grants access

Wilkes Brothers – right religion Frackers. No access to land. No passing. Idaho. Protest wanting access. Assembly of Yahweh

Access

US trespass seen as serious Not legal to shoot but still happens. Don’t post signs, people can hunt. Get hurt they can sue “attractive endangerment”.

Varies other places.

Scotland no trespass. Right to roam harmlessly.

Belarus. All forest common owned. Gather what I want.

Estonia hazel nuts common.

Bavaria all wild plants available.

Trespass seen as awful.

Nordic country god given right. To roam. Do not disturb or destroy.

Nukes mage

Plutonium mage Hanford Washington And oak ridge TN. Assembled western Texas. Pits, machined in rocky flats Colorado. Livermore Cali. Final bomb sent around country.

Plutonium triggers.

Dow fist cmo run rocky flats. 239bu fires, two fires. Plumes escaped. Leaks. Wind blown plutonium. 76 Rockwell ran. FBI raided fir corruption. Desert Glow. Covering up breaches of law. Westworld. Nation security cover up. Triggers not needed. Covered up and covered abs declared clean. Wildlife refugee.

Rocky Narrows Preserve. Oldest preserve. Charles Elliot.

Trust community. Or smaller.