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“Robbing the Earth of Its Capital Stock”

“Robbing the Earth of Its Capital Stock” ORGANIZATION & ENVIRONMENT Foster / INTR / September ODUCTION 1999 TO WARING’S AGRICULTURAL FEATURES Archives of Organizational and Environmental Literature An Introduction to George Waring’s Agricultural Features of the Census of the United States for 1850 JOHN BELLAMY FOSTER University of Oregon n his influential Letters to the President on the Foreign and Domestic Pol- I icy of the United States, U.S. economist Henry Carey (1858) quoted at length from a talk by an “eminent agriculturist” who had provided rough calcula- tions for the whole United States of the loss of soil nutrients resulting from the fail- ure to recycle organic matter. In that statement, as quoted by Carey, the dire, long- term ecological consequences of the shipment of food and fiber in a one-way move- ment from country to town were raised: What with our earth-butchery and prodigality, we are each year losing the intrinsic essence of our vitality....The question of the economy should be, not how much do we annually produce, but how much of our annual production is saved to the soil. Labor employed in robbing the earth of its capital stock of fertilizing matter, is worse than labor thrown away. In the latter case, it http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Organization & Environment SAGE

“Robbing the Earth of Its Capital Stock”

Foster, John Bellamy
Organization & Environment , Volume 12 (3): 5 – Sep 1, 1999
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ORGANIZATION & ENVIRONMENT Foster / INTR / September ODUCTION 1999 TO WARING’S AGRICULTURAL FEATURES Archives of Organizational and Environmental Literature An Introduction to George Waring’s Agricultural Features of the Census of the United States for 1850 JOHN BELLAMY FOSTER University of Oregon n his influential Letters to the President on the Foreign and Domestic Pol- I icy of the United States, U.S. economist Henry Carey (1858) quoted at length from a talk by an “eminent agriculturist” who had provided rough calcula- tions for the whole United States of the loss of soil nutrients resulting from the fail- ure to recycle organic matter. In that statement, as quoted by Carey, the dire, long- term ecological consequences of the shipment of food and fiber in a one-way move- ment from country to town were raised: What with our earth-butchery and prodigality, we are each year losing the intrinsic essence of our vitality....The question of the economy should be, not how much do we annually produce, but how much of our annual production is saved to the soil. Labor employed in robbing the earth of its capital stock of fertilizing matter, is worse than labor thrown away. In the latter case, it

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Published: Sep 1, 1999

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