The United States purchases the most fast-fashion products in the world, and are blind to the environmental and human-rights repercussions because manufacturing and sourcing are done in low-income countries — they don’t want us to see the truth.
Many clothing manufacturers do not care about their workers — they are grossly underpaid, exposed to proven health-harming chemicals, microfibers, and have no support in basic human rights.
Often the water and natural environments of low-income countries are sacrificed, so we aren’t experiencing the climb in pollution and natural destruction in our own cities.