[sphinx]

For example, and as calculated by my colleague JZ Liszkiewicz, a white cotton T-shirt contains roughly 570 gallons of water, 11 to 29 gallons of fuel, and a number of toxins and emissions including pesticides, diesel exhaust, and heavy metals and other volatile compounds – it also generally includes child labor. Accounting for those costs and their real social, human and environmental impacts has totally different implications for how we should organise production and consumption than current predatory capitalism."

I can get a four-pack of tishirts at Target for $19.99, and probably less somewhere else if I looked around a bit. Not bad for something that this bird says takes 570 gallons of water and 11 to 29 gallons of fuel.

I'm grasping for the term for the type of lunacy this piece embodies. Bits and pieces of insight, provocative theories, some truth, some fiction, all wrapped up in a delusional architecture.

[roadcat]

I'm grasping for the term for the type of lunacy this piece embodies.

Lunacy due to exaggerations. Why focus on T-shirts? Why not focus on the waste in the fast-food industry? T-shirts fill an essential role. Not so with all the waste present with fulfilling fast-food orders. How much water and fuel is wasted making cappuccinos and lattes along with the packaging? That would be a far better example of predatory capitalism. But we don't need a revolution to deal with the problem. Nor do we need government intervention (for example Moochelle lecturing us). Over time, common sense seeps into the masses and educates people in a capitalist society.