Check out this author’s other work on Adam’s Substack You keep what you make. Creation should earn absolute title. Stake a copper ridge, risk capital, drill, haul, smelt—every refined ounce is yours, and yours alone. But you didn’t build the ridge itself—each seam is eons of stored work and petrified photosynthesis, compressed until sunlight was … Continue reading The Earth’s Gift, and Man’s Claim