Eco-Logic

• Environmental & Social Cost of Fast Fashion -
• Massachusetts recently denied Holtec’s plan to dump into Cape Cod Bay radioactive wastewater from the Pilgrim nuclear reactor that they are decommissioning. -
• There are hundreds of super - fund and other toxic and radioactive sites that sea level rise will flood. As people move inland to escape sea level rise, our garbage must be moved, too.
• Many of the rocket launches done by private industry are causing holes in the ionosphere as well as destruction of local environments. -
• The 1990 Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA) left out many “downwinder” residents of 7 western states who either were exposed to radiation during U.S. military nuclear testing or worked in uranium mines, mills or transporting uranium or -

ENVIRONMENTAL & SOCIAL COST OF FAST FASHION

Our guests are Greenpeace's Viola Wohlgemuth and Dr. Nikolay Anguelov from University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. We'll be talking about fast fashion. When we were putting this show together, we had a hard time finding someone in the U.S. to talk about this subject, but then, how many people want to go up against the U.S. fashion industry?

We try to open every show with good news. While we are waiting for Governor Hochul to sign the Save the Hudson bill, A7208 and S6893, we learn that other states are not dallying. Massachusetts recently denied Holtec’s plan to dump into Cape Cod Bay radioactive wastewater from the Pilgrim nuclear reactor that they are decommissioning.

We'll also talk about...

* There are hundreds of super-fund and other toxic and radioactive sites that sea level rise will flood. As people move inland to escape sea level rise, our garbage must be moved, too.

* Many of the rocket launches done by private industry are causing holes in the ionosphere as well as destruction of local environments.

* The 1990 Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA) left out many “downwinder” residents of 7 western states who either were exposed to radiation during U.S. military nuclear testing or worked in uranium mines, mills or transporting uranium ore after 1971. A bill to expand and extend RECA has been repeatedly introduced into the Senate—and finally it has passed, with all but 2 Democrats and 12 Republicans voting in favor.

“Fast fashion...depends and promotes over-consumption. It creates a culture of addiction to novelty, not necessarily style.”

There is “ecological damage in the manufacturing of clothes and the waste of quickly discarded garments and associated labor problems including hazardous working conditions and low wages”.

Fashion is speeding up—“fast fashion” brands get cheap knock-offs of designer brands to market faster than ever; social-media influencers promote them and customers buy more and more—yet after only a couple of wearings, the clothes fall apart—and they are often made with toxic chemicals.

Fast-fashion brands are promoting circularity, but reality shows that this is still a myth. Nowhere is the failure of the fast fashion linear business model more visible than in the countries where many of these cheap clothes end up once their short lives are over: on huge dump sites, burnt on open fires along riverbeds and washed out into the sea, with severe consequences for people and the planet.

• Viola Wohlgemuth - Greenpeace
• Dr. Nikolay Anguelov - University of Massachusetts Dartmouth

• Eco - Logic Theme Medley
• David Bowie - Fashion

• http://ecoradio.org

• https://greenpeace.org

• https://www.greenpeace.org.uk/news/fast-fashion-climate-change-pollution-violence/

• https://videolibrarian.com › reviews › documentary › fast-fashion-the-real-price-of-low-cost-fashion

• https://earth.org/fast-fashion-documentaries/