[PEN-L:7252] Re: arvey, Leibniz and Marx

[Doug Henwood <dhenwood@xxxxxxxxx>]

Louis Proyect wrote:

>I didn't have space to get into this, but Harvey is very close to
>William Cronon on these questions, who also views urban spaces--Chicago in
>particular--as constituting "ecosystems". I believe this is nuts.

People live in cities, as do some trees and animals even. They eat food,
create waste, breathe air, drink water. When I turn on my tap, I get water
from a hundred miles upstate; when I turn on the light, I'm burning oil
from Saudi Arabia. How can cities not be an ecosystem?

Doug