Precipitous decline in excessive clothing purchases
jeudi 16 avril 2020 à 02:00The precipitous decline in excessive clothing purchases has led to cancellation of orders. Millions of people will be faced with unemployment.
Last year we had a couple of long-term concerns about world garment production.
- The people who will soon be unemployed were working for very low pay, in conditions that could kill them and would certainly injure them.
- The high rate of production of clothing for people who already had far more clothing than they needed was using up world resources and damaging the environment.
The acute problem of unemployment for those workers doesn't alter the long term disaster that the production of last year was leading to.
We need to move towards a real solution, not a stopgap that makes things worse. A real solution saves the workers and their families from an early death, this year and in future years. It ends the wasteful excesses of production.
I think that a real solution requires either a big drop in the birth rate, or some miracle.
*'I didn't buy new clothes for a year and it was the best thing to happen to my wardrobe'.*