That’s why you need to have some kind of objective measure of the labor being performed. Marxian Ecology would likely not consider the dialectical relationship between pollinator and things which need pollinating unless the labor is being used for an extractive process that moves nutrients from one locality to another (from the rural to the urban). If the collection of honey is done in a way that doesn’t disturb the metabolism of the region then it would (to my extremely lay-person understanding of Marxian Ecology) not be exploitive in the same sense since what is extracted is then returned to the land it was extracted from.
Obviously the calculation is different when were talking about raising and eating animals as part of the reproduction of labor.
That’s why you need to have some kind of objective measure of the labor being performed. Marxian Ecology would likely not consider the dialectical relationship between pollinator and things which need pollinating unless the labor is being used for an extractive process that moves nutrients from one locality to another (from the rural to the urban). If the collection of honey is done in a way that doesn’t disturb the metabolism of the region then it would (to my extremely lay-person understanding of Marxian Ecology) not be exploitive in the same sense since what is extracted is then returned to the land it was extracted from.
Obviously the calculation is different when were talking about raising and eating animals as part of the reproduction of labor.
Maybe someday we’ll be able to talk to the bees and work out a deal
gotta learn the right dance moves and odors