… our economic system and Nation States are built on transferring what should belong to everyone into private ownership…

The idea of owning the earth and the legal norms related to land ownership as we know them today were born in the crucible of sixteenth-century Europe and the rise of the “nation-state.” Then, in an abrupt and violent flash, “Between 1520 and 1900, colonial powers put billions of acres in private hands,” writes historian Louis Warren. (Jeff Golden, Reclaiming the Sacred)