For the title of this I wanted a saying however this saying is actually exclusive of women. Once I choose a title I find really hard changing it so I guess I will just stick with it.

Can we claim that the planet belongs to us? We were born here, we make our lives here but can it really be ours? We have created all these rules by which you may purchase pieces of land paid to an organisation, government, which represents the people of a land, country. All these countries, are defined, limited by people, they are not natural elements so these limits are essentially concepts. What I mean with this is that for most cases you will not see a natural barrier defining a country, what you see on a map is not reflected on the ground. Yet the people from these countries feel strongly about the land within those limits. Not that they need to know the first thing about the land, nor the history, geography or habitat. They may well even destroy it little by little but if asked the same person who destroys the country with pollution and lack of caring would swear to be their patria and would die for it. If we bring religion into this discussion I think we would go into a tangent which would generate a new argument of its own so I will leave religion a side. 

All throughout history different groups of people have done magnificent things and horrible things, people have also migrated, have conquered, have taken land from other people and have settled. 

I do not believe the layout of the world as we have it makes sense, in a world where we can travel from one side to the other within a day, where we can communicate instantly, where we share a global culture and almost a language, keeping these absurd and medieval borders is insulting, ridiculous and plain illogical. It would make more sense to develop cities for a non-destructive living, ensuring land for food and allowing plants and animals to have their own space. Yes, it would be us who would allow animals their land because they would not take it and as a global society we would not retreat either so we would require to acknowledge their space as their property which cannot belong to us and which we would not take. 

Certain groups of people claim to own a specific piece of land, also certain countries claim that they own a land that was taken from them. Basque Country in Spain, Ireland in the UK or Falklands Islands near Argentina, to name a few. They all make arguments of culture, history and I don’t know what. 

If Falklands belongs to Argentina because the British took it from them, then the whole Argentina would belong to Spain as they took independence from them, or it should be divided in the different populations that it was before, Mayans, Aztec, etc. Surely we could go on with that line. Another claim is that the island itself is closer to Argentina but that does not necessarily mean that the island belongs to the continent, as the continent could belong to the Island. Should it be because the continent is bigger? In that case New Zealand should belong to Australia. 

I of course, do not believe that this island should belong to the UK but neither Argentina. I do not believe it belongs to anybody. This is the biggest absurdity of the whole thing, we can make any claim we want, but the truth of the matter is that the planet does not have an owner, we do not own its lands or its waters, we are simply another inhabitants.

Land is of its own, we are born in it and we live in it. We can say that we own it, we can fight for it, we can even kill for it, we can tell each other that is ours, but we do not in fact own it and we never will. Nobody owns the land in this planet because this planet is no one’s land. 

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