part 4 Flashcards
child labour:
Children: 5-14 years working in 69% agriculture, 22%ervice, 9% industry
-chocolate industry slaves
Ivory coast=40% of worlds cocao
explain fishers/slave labourers
Fishers: slave labourers, 100s of trapped men work, from Burma and kidnapped or tricked into fishing
Label shrimp as product of slavery:
-lawsuit against Costco (in California) – stop Costco from buying shrimp from Thailand – workers on “ghost ships” – on boat kept in caged areas to prevent escaping – whipped with toxic stingray tails.
sea dead zone:
low oxygen areas where marine life cannot live, fertilizers runoff into water=algae
- -algae die=absorb oxygen
- Mississippi drainage basin
kuerig/k-cups:
All k-cups sold in 2014 were laid end to end=circle earth 10.5 times – cups/pods not recyclable or biodegradable.
explain how cows are wore for the environment than SUVs
14.5% of greenhouse gases come from livestock, 65% of that s from beef and dairy - .5 kilos of beef=driving 100km
potential environmental solution: bottles
plastic bottle from sugar cane not petroleum