The Land We Share Private Property And The Common Good Book Analysis
“The Land We Share, Private Property and the Common Good” (Eric Freyfogle)
When I read the title of this book, it made me think of all the thing happening in our society and how farmers and land owners deal with those changes. Growing up on a farm in North Central Illinois, I learned to understand just because my parents own the land doesn’t mean they can do whatever they wish on it. I learned the rules they must follow, from regulations and farming practices to natural resource issues. The government, neighbors, and even companies regulate what they can and can’t do. Whether that means that they can’t build a house on the west side of the road because a gas pipeline, that hasn’t been in use in 30 years, sits there, or they have to plant trees and natural grasses within so many yards of a creek. Even to what kind of chemicals and fertilizers can be used because of creeks and surrounding neighbors’ fields.
“The Land We Share, Private Property and the Common Good”, reveals the this has been something that was going on from the very beginning of the United States, and even before then. Freyfogle reminds us of what people were trying to escape in England and why they came to the America. He presents us with facts of what is happening today and relates them to history but leaves room for you to interpret the information in your …show more content…
The property rights that the developer must build those houses went unrestricted to improve the community, yet they fight the farmers who often spent years keeping them up. Property rights are so vague that their only seems to be a line when there is an issue for the community. Freyforgle states “When no action is taken and the problem builds, reaching or exceeding the point where all further development is harmful, the only feasible option may be to halt further development-and then find ways to respond to landowners' owners' cries of unfairness.”3.
When I read the title of this book, it made me think of all the thing happening in our society and how farmers and land owners deal with those changes. Growing up on a farm in North Central Illinois, I learned to understand just because my parents own the land doesn’t mean they can do whatever they wish on it. I learned the rules they must follow, from regulations and farming practices to natural resource issues. The government, neighbors, and even companies regulate what they can and can’t do. Whether that means that they can’t build a house on the west side of the road because a gas pipeline, that hasn’t been in use in 30 years, sits there, or they have to plant trees and natural grasses within so many yards of a creek. Even to what kind of chemicals and fertilizers can be used because of creeks and surrounding neighbors’ fields.
“The Land We Share, Private Property and the Common Good”, reveals the this has been something that was going on from the very beginning of the United States, and even before then. Freyfogle reminds us of what people were trying to escape in England and why they came to the America. He presents us with facts of what is happening today and relates them to history but leaves room for you to interpret the information in your …show more content…
The property rights that the developer must build those houses went unrestricted to improve the community, yet they fight the farmers who often spent years keeping them up. Property rights are so vague that their only seems to be a line when there is an issue for the community. Freyforgle states “When no action is taken and the problem builds, reaching or exceeding the point where all further development is harmful, the only feasible option may be to halt further development-and then find ways to respond to landowners' owners' cries of unfairness.”3.