Land “conservation” is actually land “grab.” From Elizabeth Nickson at elizabethnickson.substack.com:
A lot a lot: Enough for Ten Earths, Twenty, More
Absurdistan is running a 3-part series this long weekend (in the Commonwealth) connecting how ‘saving’ land means that land once available to the citizens of the country, is transferred to the banks and funds of the elites. The activists on the ground may be sincere, but their funders and lawyers are not.
For the sake of prosperity and the future, land and resources must be owned by the citizens of the nation, not traded as tokens on a block chain or bought by other sovereign countries. Since globalization kicked off, the opposite is true. Everywhere individual property rights have been weakened and in a weakened state turned over to banks, hedge funds, NGOs and ‘family offices’.
The result has been the systematic impoverishment of the lower 75% and a sharp diminution of opportunity.
More than 10 percent of the developing world’s landmass has been placed under strict conservation—11.75 million square miles, more than the entire continent of Africa.
Everyone conserves in the developing world, setting aside trillions of dollars in natural resources. In 2010, Goldman Sachs announced that 735,000 acres had been placed under conservation in Tierra del Fuego, the economy of which is based on its land: oil, gas, sheep farming, and ecotourism. You can be sure that these 735,000 acres were some of the most valuable acres in Tierra del Fuego and those resources banned from use by citizens.
