metabolic rift
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Marx's notion of the "irreparable rift in the interdependent process of social metabolism," i.e., his conception of ecological crisis tendencies under capitalism
Karl Marx, in an expression later popularized by sociologist John Bellamy Foster, called this disjuncture in the ecosystem capitalism's "metabolic rift."
on human feces being stuck in cities whereas previously they were used to fertilise the soil in the countryside (in Victorian England)
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