1. The idea of a strict separation between humans and nature:
a. Is an idea that serves the ruling class;
b. Is a reflection of the antagonism between cities and countryside;
c. Was challenged by Marx and Engels;
d. All of the above.
2. Marx devoted quite a substantial section of Capital Vol. III to what was seen as the most pressing environmental problem of the mid-nineteenth century, which was:
a. Industrial pollutants that caused widespread lung disease;
b. Increasingly severe swings between floods and droughts;
c. Depletion of nutrients in the soil and lower agricultural productivity;
d. Clouds of coal smoke hovering over vast rural areas.
3. Marx viewed the earth as:
a. Under the stewardship of humanity;
b. God’s gift to humanity;
c. Potentially subject to complete domination by humans;
d. Created to serve the ruling class.
4. The concept of the “metabolic rift” refers to:
a. The estrangement of humans from the natural conditions of their existence;
b. The antagonism between town and country made worse by capitalist production;
c. The way that imperial powers rob colonized nations of their natural resources;
d. All of the above.
5. When Marx wrote, “Fertility is not so natural a quality as might be thought; it is closely bound up with the social relations of the time” he was referring to:
a. Differential birth rates in rural and urban areas;
b. The impact of the mode of production on soil productivity;
c. Declining abundance of European livestock;
d. Overall decline in the birth rate in Europe.
6. For Marx, the only lasting solution to the metabolic rift is:
a. Allowing industry to apply the latest science to agriculture;
b. Ending the practice of heating homes with fire;
c. Abolishing private property and treating land as communal property;
d. Teaching rural residents the importance of crop rotation.
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