[permaculture] private property and forests

Steve Read steveread at free.fr
Mon Nov 10 02:26:05 EST 2008


Hello, Rain Tenaqiya,

All over Britain thousands of acres of land held by schools has been was sold off, particularly during the Thatcher regime as schools made a quick pound out of the booming housing development. That an analyst writes a book, that someone reads it, and its got an ISBN number doesn't necessarily make the proposals in it astute. Pension schemes can be as ill-judges in their practices as anyone else. The point I would like for a final time to re-iterate is that private property gives the owner(s) the right (constrained only by variable Govt and local laws) to do with it as they like, in perpetuity and their children etc etc.


Over and out


SteveR

======= At 2008-11-08, 20:26:26 you wrote: =======

>I'm reading a book called More Tree Talk by Ray Raphael, a local (northern California) historian.  He explains how property owned by logging corporations is logged at a faster than sustainable rate in order to produce a profit in a capitalist society with high interest rates and multiple investment options for capital.  He proposes that a better solution would be to have forest land owned by schools, retirement funds, and other groups who have less pressure to make a quick profit, but who are interested in making money over a longer time period.  
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>Nothing is perfect, but using broad labels like "private property" isn't good for making sustainable designs.  Again, we have to look at what our design goals are and do a needs and yields assessment for our different options.  Getting really specific about the different elements and sites in our designs will help us come up with better results.
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Best regards.				 
Steve Read
steveread at free.fr
2008-11-10



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