Day: June 25, 2023

Who Owns The Earth?

It is another Sunday and my day to ponder the probing questions of the day….like this one….

Have ever wondered just who owns the earth?

If you have then the old Professor has the answers for you…..

For anyone who’s ever wondered who the world’s biggest land baron is, the answer is some guy with a bunch of first names: Charles Philip Arthur George. Or Britain’s King Charles III, as he’s better known, Digg reports in a look at the top 25. Seems that Charles and the British royal family own an eye-watering 6,600,000,000 acres of land—which accounts for an eye-stabbing one-sixth of the land surface of planet Earth. Of note: not one American individual or company cracked the list. Here, the top 10 landowners, the countries in which they own land, and the amount of acreage:

  • King Charles III and the British royal family, United Kingdom and Canada, 6,600,000,000—that includes more than 90% of the land in Canada.  (Those royals are a greedy lot)
  • Catholic Church, worldwide, 177,000,000—churches, parochial schools, farms, and other real estate.
  • Inuit People of Nunavut, Canada, 87,500,000—land was given in 1993’s Nunavut Land Claims Agreement.
  • Gina Rinehart, Australia, 23,969,000—mining magnate and Australia’s richest person.
  • Inuvialuit People of the Inuvialuit Settlement Region, Canada, 22,486,000—land was given in 1984’s Inuvialuit Final Agreement.
  • Mudanjiang City Mega Farm, China, 22,239,000—the world’s largest dairy farm has more than 100,000 cows.
  • Australian Agricultural Company, Australia, 17,297,000—Australia’s oldest such cattle farm.
  • North Australian Pastoral Company, Australia, 14,826,000—cattle company dates to 1877.
  • Jumbuck Pastoral Company, Australia, 14,208,000—sheep farm is Australia’s largest producer of wool.
  • Handbury Group, Australia, 13,047,000—owner of two giant cattle farms in South and Western Australia

See the full list, via Madison Trust.

Do Canadians know that the royals still own most of their nation?

I’ll bet you thought all us individual property owners were the proper answers….well we are not.

Maybe there is something to the old saying….”property is theft”.  (Please do not use some chat bot….I know who said this…Proudhon in 1840)

This is my only gift today for tomorrow is my birthday and I am trying to decide what I would like to eat on my special day.

I hope you all have a wonderful day….be well and be safe….

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“lego ergo scribo”