WE ALL HAVE THE RIGHT TO PROTECT AND RESPECTFULLY USE LANDS.
A very small minority of people made of a tiny class of elected officials and large private landowners (those who don’t need so much land to live well) want to remain the masters on most lands. They want to keep on deciding how these lands should be managed, divided, sold, bought and controlled.
It is a violation of one of our most fundamental human rights because everything we have, including our own bodies (made of liquids, minerals and metals), come from the land.
The majority of people needs to take back our individual and collective roles as protectors and respectful users of lands. This majority also needs to recover the role of decision-makers on land management practices. It can be done on terres ensemble hautes alpes en anglais + a new kind of peaceful territories
The Embrunais region in the Hautes-Alpes in late October (photo: N. Barbier, 2018).
Nicolas Barbier