Category: Human Rights
The Hidden Costs of Fast Fashion
Buying new clothes has become an increasingly popular pastime and many consumers are addicted to this activity. Some even buy new clothes daily! However, it is important to understand the hidden costs of fast fashion.
The hidden costs of fast fashion are the environmental and human impacts that come along with this industry. The environmental and human cost of fast fashion includes the exploitation of labor and hazardous conditions in factories across the world.
When it comes to the environment one of the biggest problems that fast fashion has is causing massive amounts of waste. Every year, the United States throws away 15 million tons of textile waste, and 85 percent of it goes to landfills or is burnt.
In addition to being a major contributor to clothing waste, fast fashion is also a major source of pollution. This industry consumes an enormous amount of water and has a huge carbon footprint that accounts for 10% of global greenhouse gas emissions.
This is a big problem, and one that is often ignored or under-addressed. But there are ways to make your purchasing decisions more sustainable.
1. By buying more durable clothes you can save money and reduce your need for more clothes.
2. By educating yourself and those around you, you can teach others about the negative effects of fast …
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The Ethics of Technology Consumption : Balancing Convenience and Human Right
Technological innovation and change is the heart of consumerism but it also creates ethical issues that we must consider before purchasing any technological product. In addition to the economic implications new products also deplete natural resources that can’t be replaced and they add up to pollution that can’t be disposed of easily.
Technoethical Issues in Technology Consumption
The ethics of technology consumption is an emerging field that deals with the moral responsibilities that arise when people use or develop technologies and how to design and produce technology that doesn’t cause harm. The focus is on balancing the convenience of technology and the potential for it to have an adverse impact on human rights (Saetra and Fosch-Villaronga, 2021).
Ethical considerations in technological consumption often relate to questions of access and privacy. The rise of social media and Internet based information platforms has resulted in a growing concern over the collection of user data and how to safeguard that data against unauthorized use this raises questions about how to handle personal information and whether it’s appropriate for businesses to track users’ activities, including their shopping habits, online behaviors and social connections.
These types of concerns are especially relevant in the age of big data, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. These tools are increasingly being used to analyze customer behavior, identify trends, predict …
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