The Earth Belongs To Everyone

Alanna Hartzok has recognized that the earth is the birthright of all peoples and that prevailing notions of state sovereignty must yield to the new thinking that the only real sovereigns are the people.

If we are all to live together in peace and dignity, it must become a reality that the land, the sea, and the air we breathe are a common heritage to serve the basic rights of humankind

Equal Rights to earth and its resources as a basic human right.

The principle role of government - all levels - is to capture rent for public benefit…collecting monies whenever private entities fell trees on public lands, discharge pollutants into the air, mine oil and other minerals, access the electromagnetic spectrum.

The rent could substitute for most or all taxes on wages, investment income, and homes

Alanna Hartzok is Administrative Director and a United Nations NGO Representative for the International Union for Land Value Taxation where she helps administer land value tax implementation projects on all five continents. She is the author of The Earth Belongs to Everyone which received the Radical Middle Book Award.

In 2011 she received the International Earth Day Award from the Earth Society Foundation. Her E.F. Schumacher Lecture is titled Democracy, Earth Rights and the Next Economy.

Alanna initiated tax reform legislation that passed with a nearly unanimous vote, enabling the nearly 1000 towns of Pennsylvania to shift their tax base off of buildings and onto land value.

Her articles are referenced in the Association of Bay Area Governments, the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review, Dialogues (the Canada West Foundation) and in books, including The Natural Wealth of Nations and Creating a Sustainable World. She was featured in Planet Champions: Adventures in Saving the World.

Twice she has been a congressional candidate for her district of Pennsylvania.

Video "Economics of Peace and Earth Rights Democracy" at the 4th Summit of the Global Alliance for Ministries and Departments of Peace

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https://theiu.org/international-declaration/ - An International Declaration on Individual and Common Rights to Earth

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https://theiu.org/courses/ - Free Online Course on Land Rights