part 4 Flashcards

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child labour:

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Children: 5-14 years working in 69% agriculture, 22%ervice, 9% industry
-chocolate industry slaves
Ivory coast=40% of worlds cocao

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explain fishers/slave labourers

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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.

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sea dead zone:

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low oxygen areas where marine life cannot live, fertilizers runoff into water=algae

  • -algae die=absorb oxygen
  • Mississippi drainage basin
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kuerig/k-cups:

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All k-cups sold in 2014 were laid end to end=circle earth 10.5 times – cups/pods not recyclable or biodegradable.

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explain how cows are wore for the environment than SUVs

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14.5% of greenhouse gases come from livestock, 65% of that s from beef and dairy - .5 kilos of beef=driving 100km

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potential environmental solution: bottles

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plastic bottle from sugar cane not petroleum

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