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More than half of humans worldwide now live in cities, detached from land–and ancestral homelands–to varying degrees. Concerns about land, especially on a small scale, are often dismissed as trivial or quaint when our predicaments–climate change, global inequality, geopolitical tensions–are so large. However, the importance of land on any scale cannot be overstated: it is the foundation of language, culture, and for those of us terrestrially inclined beings, life itself. So how did we get to this point where half the human world has been deracinated from their ancestral lands? What does this mean for our relationship to the living world and each other? And how might we relate more intimately to land–belong to a living place–in our various contexts? Access to land is also a fundamental requirement for procuring one’s needs for survival. Without land, the barriers to opting out of breaking systems of oppression are that much larger.
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