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How does the concept of metabolic rift explain the human’s impact on nature?

  • Environmental Geography

The relationship between human society and the natural world has never been one of simple opposition. Human labour is the medium through which society draws upon nature — extracting food, water, and raw materials — while simultaneously returning waste and by-products to the environment in a continuous circular exchange. When this exchange is balanced and…

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  • 1. Understanding metabolism: the human-nature interaction
  • 2. The metabolic rift: Marx's original concept and Liebig's influence
  • 3. Capitalism and the emergence of the metabolic rift
  • 4. Manifestations of metabolic rift: environmental degradation under capitalism
  • Land degradation and soil fertility collapse
  • Air pollution and global warming: the atmospheric rift
  • …and 8 more sections, with a conclusion

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