Largest Landowner
“Queen Elizabeth II the largest landowner on Earth.”
Queen Elizabeth II, head of state of the United Kingdom and of 31 other states and territories, is the legal owner of about 6,600 million acres of land, one sixth of the earth’s non ocean surface.
She is the only person on earth who owns whole countries, and who owns countries that are not her own domestic territory. This land ownership is separate from her role as head of state and is different from other monarchies where no such claim is made – Norway, Belgium, Denmark etc.
The value of her land holding. £17,600,000,000,000 (approx).
This makes her the richest individual on earth. However, there is no way easily to value her real estate. There is no current market in the land of entire countries. At a rough estimate of $5,000 an acre, and based on the sale of Alaska to the USA by the Tsar, and of Louisiana to the USA by France, the Queen’s land holding is worth a notional $33,000,000,000,000 (Thirty three trillion dollars or about £17,600,000,000,000). Her holding is based on the laws of the countries she owns and her land title is valid in all the countries she owns. Her main holdings are Canada, the 2nd largest country on earth, with 2,467 million acres, Australia, the 7th largest country on earth with 1,900 million acres, the Papua New Guinea with114 million acres, New Zealand with 66 million acres and the UK with 60 million acres.
She is the world’s largest landowner by a significant margin. The next largest landowner is the Russian state, with an overall ownership of 4,219 million acres, and a direct ownership comparable with the Queen’s land holding of 2,447 million acres. The 3rd largest landowner is the Chinese state, which claims all of Chinese land, about 2,365 million acres. The 4th largest landowner on earth is the Federal Government of the United States, which owns about one third of the land of the USA, 760 million acres. The fifth largest landowner on earth is the King of Saudi Arabia with 553 million acres
Largest five personal landowners on Earh
Queen Elizabeth II ................. 6,600 million acres
King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia .... 553 million acres
King Bhumibol of Thailand ........ 126 million acres
King Mohammed IV of Morocco ... 113 million acres
Sultan Quaboos of Oman .......... 76 million acres
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G'day.
Obviously land ownership is a major issue, for without land how do you grow food ?
Yet the land is 'owned' and you have to pay for it, which means that you have to get a job to earn the money to pay for it, which in turn means that you are supporting the structure of control of which land ownership, or agreement of land ownership by others, is the fundamental basis of controlling the population.
It ties hand-in-hand with many other issues. Here's a few thoughts I've had about it that are a starting point in having a discussion about this issue. Feel free to add more, disagree with any or raise any issue(s) that you think is/are interrelated with the control of the population through land ownership. 
- No corporation can own land. They can only rent it from the people. The money raised by the rental of land owned by the people is to be used for the running of the government infrastructure and services.
- No government official can have any authority to send any army, national guard or police force overseas to engage in a war, nor can they have any authority over such forces within the country.
- Only companies can be taxed. No individual is to be indebted to pay tax for any reason. Tax revenue is to be utilised by the people, for the people.
- People do not own land. It is a ‘common ownership’ for all, akin to caretaking, and is to be ‘leased’ to them, without cost, based upon what the function of the land is utilised for.
DECLARATION OF THE FOUR SACRED THINGS
The earth is a living, conscious being. In company with cultures of many different times and places, we name these things as sacred: air, fire, water and earth.
Whether we see them as the breath, energy, blood and body of the Mother, or as the blessed gifts of a Creator, or as symbols of the interconnected systems that sustain life, we know that nothing can live without them.
To call these things sacred is to say that they have a value beyond their usefulness for human ends, that they themselves become the standards by which our acts, our economics, our laws and our purposes must be judged. No one has the right to appropriate them or profit from them at the expense of others. Any government that fails to protect them forfeits its legitimacy.
All people, all living things, are part of the earth life, and so are sacred. No one of us stands higher or lower than any other. Only justice can assure balance: only ecological balance can sustain freedom. Only in freedom can that fifth sacred thing we call spirit flourish in its full diversity.
To honour the sacred is to create conditions in which nourishment, sustenance, habitat, knowledge, freedom and beauty can thrive. To honour the sacred is to make love possible.
To this we dedicate our curiosity, our will, our courage, our silences and our voices. To this we dedicate our lives.
The Fifth Sacred Thing
Starhawk
www.starhawk.org/writings/fifth-sacred-thing.html
