Sentence examples for cheap nature from inspiring English sources
What we call "cheap nature" included not only forests and fields and streams, but also the vast majority of humankind.
Every global factory needs a global farm: industrial, technological and service enterprises rely on the extraction of work and cheap nature to thrive.
Positing that it is "cheap nature"—labor power, food, energy, and raw materials that capitalism has produced, Moore supplants "Anthropocene" with "Capitalocene" as the preeminent paradigm of our contemporary global condition.
In today׳s materials chemistry, to develop functional carbon nanomaterials from cheap nature provided materials becomes a highly attractive subject, which, to some extent, encompasses the economic, sustainable, environmental, and social issues.
Jason W Moore in Capitalism in the Web of Life argues that appropriating "cheap nature" (raw materials, energy, food, labour, including women's reproductive labour) is the fundamental condition allowing capital to extract its surplus from the production process.
Hunger began to matter politically only when the poor came to the cities and translated it into anger, and thence potentially into insurrection and a challenge to the rule of cheap nature.
Climate change represents something much more than a closing frontier – it is something akin to an implosion of the cheap-nature model, bringing not the end of easy and cheap natures, but a dramatic reversal.
It is not just that heating oil will be cheaper, nature will also play a part: the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration predicts a mild winter.
The most interesting thing about the plastic semiconductor revolution is its cheap disposable nature.
I suppose it is the teeming evidence that birth and growth, which we value, are ubiquitous and blind, that life itself is so astonishingly cheap, that nature is as careless as it is bountiful, and that with extravagance goes a crushing waste that will one day include our own cheap lives.
Natural polymers from agricultural and forest produce are abundant in nature, cheap and environmentally friendly.
