It is this God-given right which entitles man to appropriate the land as property. Unless Americans are ready to specify which religion and gender a person must have, I believe the relationship between humans and the land must be based on some other rationale. Finding another rationale that still supports an absolute form of private land ownership will be difficult. This is because even Locke recognized land as a very special kind of thing along the spectrum of things. Land is so special, in fact, that Locke qualified a man's right to property in land with several conditions.
Every single condition is violated to some degree.
Some, like the first condition, more egregiously than others. But how to accommodate Nature in our conception of community has always been problematic. This has been true for at least as long as we've had enough humans in a particular place to worry about territoriality. This is especially problematic now if we stop ignoring the land s theft from Others, both human and nonhuman. Perhaps the living entity that Leopold called land, the 'foundation of the community of life,' should be treated more like we treat another human's existence, than like we treat inanimate things like bulldozers or factories.