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POPSSacred Economics: Chapter 5, "The Corpse of the Commons" (Pt. 6) Charles Eisenstein The distinction between land and improvements thereupon -- the distinction between that which already exists and that which human effort creates -- is no more or less valid for land than for any other material good. All that we use and all that we own consists of modified bits of earth. Together they are "natural capital" -- the wealth and goodness that nature has bequeathed upon us. Originally none of it was property; it came into that realm as technology lengthened our grasp and the mentality of separation intensified our will to own. Today, forms of natural capital that we barely knew existed have become property: the electromagnetic spectrum, sequences of DNA, and, indirectly, ecological diversity and the earth's capacity to absorb industrial waste.1 Quite a lengthy article, though, I love the insights he shares.
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