and also the nutrient cycle is destroyed. Nutrients removed don’t automatically return, so future trees and plants have less and less. The broken nutrient cycle is an old problem that now is resurfacing as we move away from fossil fuels. Already back in the mid-1900s, Karl Marx wrote about it. Environmental sociology before it was even invented…

https://johnbellamyfoster.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Marxs-Theory-of-Metabolic-Rift.pdf