Looking to change how to live in 2021? Small steps for big change are topics covered in this three episode series on ecofeminism -- from fast fashion and oil spills through to CoVID19.
This episode details the ways that the fast fashion industry exploits factory workers in lower income countries with unsafe conditions and low wages and also pollutes local water systems with chemicals from synthetic fabrics. It also discusses how consumers in the U.S. continuously buy this cheap fashion and most of it ends up in a landfill as textile waste.
Special thanks to Andrew Smith HWS IT Services for his help and creating and editing this podcast.
Sources:Bick, R., Halsey, E. & Ekenga, C.C. The global environmental injustice of fast fashion. Environ Health17, 92 (2018).https://doi.org/10.1186/s12940-018-0433-7
Meyers, Chris. “Wrongful Beneficence: Exploitation and Third World Sweatshops.” Journal of Social Philosophy35, no. 3 (2004): 319–33.
