Gerry McGovern on Nostr: "Much of what they sell will end up in a landfill within a year and was manufactured ...

"Much of what they sell will end up in a landfill within a year and was manufactured by invisible workers laboring under poor conditions, enabled by bizarre trade loopholes without which $5 products shipped 8000 miles to customers’ doors don’t make any sense."

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/the-troubling-triumph-of-the-supercheap-gadget.html

Over-consumption of cheap products designed for the dump are a far greater threat to our environment than CO2.

Over-consumption is the meta crisis.