Ownership Of Land - A Deeply Flawed Concept?

[Sonoran Na'vi]

Originally Posted by auroraglacialis

Who will control and protect the land? The very people that depend on it. If your life depends on that land, if it gives you water and food, they you take care of it. This is how native people did it for millennia and this is why they fight vigorously to protect the jungle and mountains they live on. They dont own it in a legal sense, but they defend it anyways! Maybe they dont stand a chance against rifles and helicopters but the point here was to ask who would protect the land from damages!

Native Americans may have had a general custom to how the land shall be used, or didn't have a large enough population in order to use up the resources of the land. But if we apply game theory to the use of land without ownership of the resources, we'll find that people will generally overuse resources on the land.

[redpaintednavi]

Originally Posted by Sonoran Na'vi

Native Americans may have had a general custom to how the land shall be used, or didn't have a large enough population in order to use up the resources of the land. But if we apply game theory to the use of land without ownership of the resources, we'll find that people will generally overuse resources on the land.

It is just a matter of how you use the resources. There are societies that have lived on limited resources for millennia without overusing them. We can learn from such societies.