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George Perkins Marsh and the Transformation of Earth

George Perkins Marsh and the Transformation of Earth ORGANIZATION & ENVIRONMENT Clark, Foster / June / GEORGE 2002 PERKINS MARSH Archives of Organizational and Environmental Literature GEORGE PERKINS MARSH AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF EARTH An Introduction to Marsh’s Man and Nature BRETT CLARK JOHN BELLAMY FOSTER University of Oregon eorge Perkins Marsh (1801-1882) stated that his book, Man and G Nature, was “a little volume showingthat whereas [Carl] Ritter and [Arnold] Guyot think that the earth made man, man in fact made the earth” (as cited in Lowenthal, 2000, p. 267). With this position, Marsh inverted a dominant theoret- ical position in the new geography of the 1800s. Humans became active agents in the transformation—both destruction and revitalization—of nature. Despite Marsh’s Calvinist background, he sought to remove teleological tendencies from scientific studies of the material world. In Man and Nature, Marsh (1864) provided a detailed discussion of the historical degradation of nature. His work is seen as a warningto a society that insists on an irrational interaction with nature. Marsh demanded that people must work to restore, to whatever extent is possible, past damages to nature, as well as engage in practices that prevent further degradation of nature. Marsh’s work, Lewis Mumford (1931/1971) declared, was “the fountain- http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Organization & Environment SAGE

George Perkins Marsh and the Transformation of Earth

Clark, Brett; Foster, John Bellamy
Organization & Environment , Volume 15 (2): 6 – Jun 1, 2002
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ORGANIZATION & ENVIRONMENT Clark, Foster / June / GEORGE 2002 PERKINS MARSH Archives of Organizational and Environmental Literature GEORGE PERKINS MARSH AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF EARTH An Introduction to Marsh’s Man and Nature BRETT CLARK JOHN BELLAMY FOSTER University of Oregon eorge Perkins Marsh (1801-1882) stated that his book, Man and G Nature, was “a little volume showingthat whereas [Carl] Ritter and [Arnold] Guyot think that the earth made man, man in fact made the earth” (as cited in Lowenthal, 2000, p. 267). With this position, Marsh inverted a dominant theoret- ical position in the new geography of the 1800s. Humans became active agents in the transformation—both destruction and revitalization—of nature. Despite Marsh’s Calvinist background, he sought to remove teleological tendencies from scientific studies of the material world. In Man and Nature, Marsh (1864) provided a detailed discussion of the historical degradation of nature. His work is seen as a warningto a society that insists on an irrational interaction with nature. Marsh demanded that people must work to restore, to whatever extent is possible, past damages to nature, as well as engage in practices that prevent further degradation of nature. Marsh’s work, Lewis Mumford (1931/1971) declared, was “the fountain-

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