During the rising years of Industrial Revolution, Marx thought of the adverse consequences it was supposed to wreak upon the nature and the human world. He was of the opinion that that not only labour but nature too was at a stake by the impact of capital. Capital subjugates both labour and nature. At the same time, it separates town and country and employs more and more industrial techniques in production.

As a result, it paves all the way for outright degredation of the ecological basis of the living world and human existence in particular. He says in Capital Vol.I : "All progress in capital agriculture is a progress in the art, not only of robbing the worker, but of robbing the soil; all progress in increasing the fertility of the soil for a given time is progress towards ruining the long-lasting sources of that fertility."

It seems how far a great man's idea goes to predict the future. He also says ; "The more a country proceeds from the large-scale industry as the backgroun of its development, as in the case of the United States, the more rapid is this progress of destruction. Capitalist production, therefore, only develops the techniques and the degree of the combination of the social process of production by simul taneously undermining the original sources of all wealth...the soil and the worker." How true it can be! Is marx the first environmentalist and ecologist of the? If we say yes, it is no economy of truth and far from the truth we know today.

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