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Simon Brooke"[ <a href="https://mastodon.social/@greenpeace" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@greenpeace</a> ] gave birth to the non-Indigenous part of the modern environmental movement in the early 1970s and captured the imagination of the world by engaging in spectacular and creative actions to save whales in the north Pacific and to stop nuclear testing. Greenpeace needs to be protected in this critical moment"<a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/ClimateEmergency" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ClimateEmergency</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Ecocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ecocide</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/LandReform" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LandReform</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/FreeSpeach" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FreeSpeach</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/ThereIsNoPlanetB" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ThereIsNoPlanetB</a><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/28/greenpeace-verdict-pipeline-north-dakota" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/28/greenpeace-verdict-pipeline-north-dakota</a>

Simon BrookeThis is (part of) why I am, and intend to continue to be, a financial supporter of <a href="https://mastodon.social/@greenpeace" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@greenpeace</a> . I'm not claiming the organisation is perfect – none is – but we need groups with the courage, resources and skills to stand up to the onrushing <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Corporate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Corporate</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Fascist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Fascist</a> wave.<a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/ClimateEmergency" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ClimateEmergency</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Ecocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ecocide</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/LandReform" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LandReform</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/FreeSpeach" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FreeSpeach</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/ThereIsNoPlanetB" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ThereIsNoPlanetB</a><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/28/greenpeace-verdict-pipeline-north-dakota" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/28/greenpeace-verdict-pipeline-north-dakota</a>

Simon BrookeIt is good for people to have security of tenure of their homes; it is good for land to have consistent management over long periods of time. But heritable property is the principle driver of social inequity, and we should not tolerate it.[My opinions, not those of the people writing the survey!]<a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/LandReform" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LandReform</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/ScotPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ScotPol</a> #2/2<a href="https://diffleypartnership.co.uk/the-big-land-question/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://diffleypartnership.co.uk/the-big-land-question/</a>

Simon BrookeThe default state of land in Scotland is currently that it is privately owned, and fungible -- it may be traded for money. The default state of land should be that it is common, that is to say inalienable (non fungible) communal property of the local community, and that individuals should have non-heritable life-rent of holdings.<a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/LandReform" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LandReform</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/ScotPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ScotPol</a> #1/2<a href="https://diffleypartnership.co.uk/the-big-land-question/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://diffleypartnership.co.uk/the-big-land-question/</a>

Michael T. Bacon, Ph.D.This is an outstanding opportunity for <a href="https://social.coop/tags/CommunityLandTrusts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CommunityLandTrusts</a> and cooperative housing if we had anyone near power who understood their potential.Auctioning this off to developers and it'll provide temporary relief only.<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/02/16/las-vegas-housing-shortage-federal-land/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/02/16/las-vegas-housing-shortage-federal-land/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub</a><a href="https://social.coop/tags/CLT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CLT</a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/CLTs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CLTs</a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/LandReform" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LandReform</a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/coops" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#coops</a>

Simon Brooke<a href="https://kolektiva.social/@beka_valentine" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@beka_valentine</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/@newstephie" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@newstephie</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/@webhat" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@webhat</a> So build better ones! People DESERVE better ones.This isn't rocket science.<a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Homelessness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Homelessness</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/HousingCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HousingCrisis</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/LandReform" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LandReform</a>

it's kat! 🇵🇸✊coucou, lovely fellow scotland dwellers: have you answered SCOTLAND'S BIG LAND QUESTION yet? our responses could play a vital part in reforming land ownership & redressing the injustice caused by a small number of people (~430) owning most of the country. they could also accelerating rewilding & biodiversity. go to <a href="https://revive.scot" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://revive.scot</a> for more info & a link to the survey. <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/landReform" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#landReform</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/scotland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#scotland</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/reviveScot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#reviveScot</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/rewilding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#rewilding</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/climateCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#climateCrisis</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/climate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#climate</a>

Simon Brooke"the total amount of assets that have been transferred is still marginal with less than 3% of Scotland’s land being held in community ownership"<a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/LandReform" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LandReform</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/ScotPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ScotPol</a> <a href="https://commonweal.scot/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Taxing-Land.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://commonweal.scot/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Taxing-Land.pdf</a>

Simon Brooke"The patterns of land ownership in Scotland are some of the most pathologically concentrated in the developed world with fewer than 450 people accounting for half of Scotland’s privately owned land"<a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/LandReform" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LandReform</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/ScotPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ScotPol</a> [apologies for the formatting. I'm trying to shame Common Weal into publishing their policy papers in a less user-hostile format]<a href="https://commonweal.scot/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Taxing-Land.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://commonweal.scot/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Taxing-Land.pdf</a>

Simon Brooke"More urban Councils benefit less from a Property Tax on land but this is compensated for by their greater expected revenue from Property Tax on buildings. Given that Council Tax is currently one of only a few taxes (semi-)autonomously controlled by Local Authorities, applying a locally controlled tax to land will give a greater degree of democratic control and accountability to those Local Authorities"<a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/LandReform" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LandReform</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/ScotPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ScotPol</a> <a href="https://commonweal.scot/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Taxing-Land.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://commonweal.scot/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Taxing-Land.pdf</a>

Simon Brooke"Land in Scotland remains the largest store of untaxed wealth in the country. This has negative effects not just on national and local budgets, but is corrosive to social equality, democratic accountability and on local economic and community development"<a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/LandReform" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LandReform</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/ScotPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ScotPol</a> (aside: I DO WISH people would not publish documents like this as PDF. It makes them so difficult to work with. Even MS Word would be better)<a href="https://commonweal.scot/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Taxing-Land.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://commonweal.scot/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Taxing-Land.pdf</a>

Auntie SyzygyAre there any discussions on here about land reform? I never see any, and it's one of the things that most interest me over on the other place. Nobody should own land as if it was a thing.<a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/LandReform" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LandReform</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Land" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Land</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scotland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Scotland</a>

Simon Brooke<a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/introduction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#introduction</a> Simon Brooke, crofter, ex <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Lisp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Lisp</a> hacker, still dabbles in <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Clojure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Clojure</a>. Lives at Standingstone, which is not a commune but a conspiracy: what happens when a bunch of homeless people buy a farm. Posts mostly about crofting, living <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/offgrid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#offgrid</a>, <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/LandReform" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LandReform</a>, Scottish <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#politics</a>, mental illness.he/him, <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/autistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#autistic</a>, cis male, <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/transally" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#transally</a>.

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