I've been thinking about this recently.
I still have trouble with the concepts of use and exchange value so this might be a silly question, but humour me (someone had to ask, right?)
Edit: I wrote a follow up to this here
I've been thinking about this recently.
I still have trouble with the concepts of use and exchange value so this might be a silly question, but humour me (someone had to ask, right?)
Edit: I wrote a follow up to this here
An ecological preserve doesn't have "Value" in the Marxist sense, but that doesn't mean it doesn't have value. When Marx talks about value he's talking about commodity production under capitalism, not about whether something has intrinsic "value", if that makes sense.
It has use-value - access to green spaces is extremely beneficial to human health