The law of valueplaysan important rolebetweenenvironmental quality and law of value of socialreproduction, the morehuman being departs fromthe law, the worse the environmental quality becomes.
The environmental result is that the value chain sucks ever more raw materials through as fast as possible, swallowing up huge volumes of timber, steel, plastic and energy in the process.
In the agriculture sector alone, Monsanto and its competitors are spending billions of dollars annually on agricultural biotechnology research, pursuing traits that make crops higher yielding and more resistant to various environmental stresses, and to make grains with increased nutritional value.