THE IDEA OF ENVIRONMENT IN MARXIST PHILOSOPHY
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Environmental issues are now a worldwide phenomenon in the twenty-first century. It is becoming exceedingly challenging to ignore environmental challenges. These challenges transcend national lines and include overconsumption of resources, ozone depletion, climate change, the extinction of endangered species, and overfishing in international waterways. In addition to affecting people’s lives and health, issues like climate change and ozone layer depletion also have an impact on every country and community. Since environmental issues are highly complicated and interwoven, they can also affect other parts of the world. For instance, air pollution in one region of Europe can be brought on by activities in another region. Karl Marx connects nature and labor in the context of the Marxist view of the environment, arguing that the former is only valuable if human activity is committed to it and referring to nature as the inorganic body of man. Marxian perspectives on nature were made more visible with the rise of environmental movements and environmental literature in the 1970s and 1980s, by the scholars such as, K. William Kapp, Barry Commoner August Bebel, Garett Hardin, and Alan Roberts.
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