What Your Cheap Clothes Cost the Planet

What your cheap clothes cost the planet

The Atacama desert in Chile is one of the most beautiful and forbidding places on Earth, so dry that it’s sometimes used by scientists to test run Mars missions. Most years the area sees less than half a centimeter of rain, but this past September unusually heavy precipitation brought forth a desert bloom, blanketing the ground with delicate purple flowers that disappeared as quickly as they’d appeared. It was a rare treat for locals used to gri…

What Your Cheap Clothes Cost the Planet

Sachi Mulkey, Rebecca McCarthy A global supply chain built for speed is leaving behind waste, toxins, and a trail of environmental wreckage. The post What Your Cheap Clothes Cost the Planet appeared first on The Nation.