- The working conditions of the laborers who cultivate, raise, mine, refine, forge, build, transport, display, advertise and sell, the goods consumers want.
- Wages
- Benefits
- Hours per shift, week, month or pay period.
- Physical safety standards
- Discrimination, favoritism, cronyism, sexual harassment.
- The impact on the environment where the raw materials are extracted.
- Erosion, flooding, fertilizer runoff, animal feces runoff, chemical contamination, air pollution, adjacent property values,
- The waste generated by what is left over after the goods are consumed.
- Plastic in the oceans and landfills. chemicals seeping into rivers, aquifers and water tables.
- The sustainability of the resources from which the goods derive.
- Over-fishing depleted the main source of food in Somalia, leaving many with no choice but to become pirates.
- Deforestation of the Amazon and Canada.
- Depletion of soil nutrients.
- Drying up water reservoirs and rivers.
Tuesday, October 16, 2018
Abject Consumerism
What are things most consumers don't think about most of the time?
Labels:
climate change,
consumer,
global warming,
pollution,
safety,
worker
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