SOC463H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: 2004 Indian Ocean Earthquake And Tsunami, Plausible Deniability, Fast Fashion
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Ignorance of the law as an excuse for breaking the law. The framing of the issue by the joe fresh spokesperson: these are anomalies these are the bad things that we are weeding out. This is 100% normal, and we all benefit from it: we are all complicit in the system. What would it actually take to change these practices: it wouldn"t be up to individual choices, incentivising fast fashion on the national level (lower import costs) The whole case summarized in a single sentence. Purposeful neglect of precarious work conditions for the sake of capitalistic greed. Need to be able to analytically chop up these disasters. What is a disaster, and how do we explain them. Wildfires example there aren"t more of them happening, but they are bigger, burning hotter, and are thus more expensive to deal with. More people are being impacted by disaster across the globe (trend accelerates in the.
