>The critique of political ecology
>can never be the world-historical task which Marx's critique
>of political economy was.
Why not, Mark? If, as David Harvey argues, the built environment and the modification of "nature" (which is rarely "natural," but almost always humanly remade; and don't forget Adorno's dictum that the image of undistorted nature originates in distortion, as its opposite) are deeply social, then political ecology and political economy are deeply interpenetrated - practically inseparable. We make cities and suburbs and farms, and cities, suburbs, and farms make us.
Doug