You know, a lot of people that I talk to oftentimes don't think, and people in cities

aren't thinking about how much they rely even today on the land, right?

You know, we're here talking through our computers, which, you know, are full of rare earth

metals, right, that come from the land.

And, you know, this race for rare earth metals, it's ongoing in discussion of, you know,

trying to extract minerals from, you know, Greenland or from, you know, Ukraine and the like

is rooted in this, you know, drive for new technology.

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Since the dawn of recorded human history, land has had immense monetary value through the natural resources it supports, such as wild animals, plants, and precious metals, end quote.

I'm curious to unravel this a little bit because land wasn't always, and even to this day,

isn't universally viewed through the lens of monetary value based on different worldviews.

So I'm thinking about indigenous worldviews of their perception is that they belong to the land,

people belong to the land, versus the land being ownable by people, whether by one person

privately or by a collective. So I'd like to ask you about the history of land becoming commodified

by certain cultures and political systems with that sort of attributed value in monetary currencies.

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