Years ago I was driving to summer arts intensive in Fresno and listening to an NPR type show about the drought in California They were interviewing a farmer, he gave an amazing in depth breakdown of the fallacies in short term thinking and understanding by the state legislature, and how working the land his whole life had trained him to think in 5-10 year cycles, something government did not do Fast forward so many years, Ive got a few acres in Texas now The level of detail that having ownership of space requires is immense To be a good Steward demands of level of environmental awareness with soil, foilage, weather, and knowing your local governance, policies...the list goes on and on I understand why voting was historically limited to men with property rights Your stake in the world is REAL.