
Whose Land Is It?
07/16/22 • 51 min
Ever want to quit your job, leave the rat race behind, and head back to the land? Buy an old farmhouse or build a solar-powered home and live self-sufficiently on a few acres of your very own? Generations before you have shared that dream. The reality is more complicated. Even owning your own land is an ethical minefield.
Original Air Date: December 18, 2021
Guests:
Makenna Goodman — Simon Winchester — Hayden King
Interviews In This Hour:
Can you live off the land and still live ethically? — What does 'owning' land actually mean? — How the Land Back movement is reclaiming land stolen from Indigenous people
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Ever want to quit your job, leave the rat race behind, and head back to the land? Buy an old farmhouse or build a solar-powered home and live self-sufficiently on a few acres of your very own? Generations before you have shared that dream. The reality is more complicated. Even owning your own land is an ethical minefield.
Original Air Date: December 18, 2021
Guests:
Makenna Goodman — Simon Winchester — Hayden King
Interviews In This Hour:
Can you live off the land and still live ethically? — What does 'owning' land actually mean? — How the Land Back movement is reclaiming land stolen from Indigenous people
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