This page is about the documentary “The True Cost.” It is about clothing, ethical, sustainability, and human right. People can buy clothes with low price because of the fast fashion industries, but these industries have raised the enormous problems of nature and human beings. We should think about these issues and activities. I watched the documentary with consideration of ethical, sustainability, and human rights.
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- An eight-story sweatshop was collapsed in April in Dhaka, Bangladesh. This was not only an accident but also ethical issue and human rights because the merciless fast fashion business caused the horrible catastrophe. Fast fashion companies do not have responsibility of safety of their workers and only pursue the business interests. This was the result of it.
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- Usually women and children in third-world countries are suffering in sweatshops. No women want bring their baby in those harmful environment and make the baby sleep on the floor like this photo. However, they do not have choice.
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- People who do not know how bad is they’re doing, saying, or mindlessness are ethically bad. Why and how do the people ignore other people’s lives? All people are same even though they were born in developing countries and their alternatives are different from senior nations.
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- Do we need to do like this? Why do people consume everything voraciously? They are ruthless consumers, motivated by greed. They do not care about ethical principles.
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- According to the documentary “The True Cost,” there are 82 pounds of textile waste each year in America. It is not environmental-friendly, in the other words, it will take more than 200 years to disappear this waste. Even more it creates dangerous gases. This is a huge sustainable issue.
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- Larhea Pepper, who are a cotton farmer in Texas, lost her husband because of his cancer. A lot of agricultural chemicals and cotton chemicals caused his cancer. So that organic became imperative to her. She makes me reconsider which organ is the biggest part of my body. I learned how sustainability is imperative not only for nature but also individuals. I need to think about the materials that whether it is good or bad for our skin.
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- People desire to be safe. This is one of the fundamental human rights and also our instinct. The way of producing cheaper clothing and the demands to have business benefits seize people’s rights, health, and lives.
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- Individuals must have social, environmental, and sustainable responsibilities; however, there cannot be a solution as long as fast fashion industries ignore ethical principle, because they are huge part of the commercial world. It is necessary that more governments and non-government organizations recognize the responsibility to be sustainable and more participate in making a better and healthier environment.
