The relationship between humans and land begins with a fundamental claim by some people or countries to “own” land. Land use has historically tended to follow claims to ownership, defined as the right to the use of and disposal of land. This conflicts with the common rhetoric of environmentalists, which too often comes fact-free. But notional is not real, and what is noticeable when looking at how the 37 billion acres are used by nature and humanity is that the urban area, humanity’s footprint on the land patch, is extremely small, at 1.5 per cent. This means that there are a notional four acres available for every man, woman and child in the predicted 2050 world population 0f nine billion, which would be an increase of two billion on the present population. It is 123 billion acres in size, of which 37 billion acres are land. The world relative to its human population is quite large. The Queen, the family of the actress Nicole Kidman, King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia and the media tyco
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