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to grow our food and survive from the earth anymore. Unfortunately, government is generally corrupt and isn’t
It is essential for us to return to the land and become encouraging the people to be sustainable because then
sustainable human beings if we are to survive. This single the people wouldn’t be dependent on them. If we truly
element, the land being returned to the people, the want to be sustainable, I believe that we’ve got to do it
people returning to the land, is the single most viable ourselves. We need to reclaim our power. We need to
solution, the exact catalyst we need to actually make real work together to share what we have collectively, so all
changes and restore this earth, becoming sustainable our needs are met. The problem lies not in lack of food,
everywhere on the planet. water and land, but in the distribution of these essentials.
But how do we do this, as it becomes more and more Government has seized control. But is it really control? Do
challenging to even have a home at all in this world, much the people truly lose their power and their relationship to
less obtain rights to access it longterm? And when it costs the Earth, because of a perceived authority’s prescriptions?
No. Government only has the power we as
we MuSt StanD togetHer aS one a collective give it. We must stand together
as one people for the Earth and our future as
so much to have the “privilege” of living on the land that humankind. If we continue to blindly listen to what we’re
those who have access are too busy working to pay for it being fed, we’ll go extinct, as we’re already quickly in the
to actually grow food? How do we the people take back process of doing.
our power, the power to simply survive without being The issue here stems from people embracing the illusion
dependent on the system, to live sustainably? that they can own land, a concept fed to them by, yet
We can beg the government for what we want, but how again, the government, in their scheme to have slaves.
effective is that in the long run? Not very, considering the When we begin to acknowledge, as a collective, that
variables involved in a state essentially set up to dominate land ownership is a delusion, we can begin to have right
and make the masses subservient. We can try to get them relationship with the Earth. We can start the process of
to make changes in policy, to grant families land into becoming sustainable human beings by growing our
perpetuity. This would work if and only if if we lived in a own food instead of relying on others to do it for us, and
place where government isn’t corrupt, a rare thing indeed. exchanging the paper money we work for within the
Actually, in Russia right now, under Putin, the government system for the food we eat. Eventually we can create the
has been giving land to families for growing food, and this necessary changes to live on the land without paying
has created a revolution in sustainability. Russia is now taxes, rent, and mortgage — as stewards, who care for,
producing almost all its own food, through small-scale protect and preserve the land.
farming alone, which isn’t a new concept; it’s an old one, One possible solution for the time being, until something
and the only one that really makes sense. shifts with governmental dominion, is for the people who

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