Eco-Angst

At a Cambridge restaurant one night, I was about to order the cod when my dining companion, Gregory Norris, whipped out his iPhone, accessed http://www.Blueocean.com, and told me the sad news. On the Eastern seaboard cod has been over-fished; while it’s fine to order it in San Francisco, with Pacific Ocean supplies plentiful, doing so in New England ups the pressure on dwindling stocks.

Then I talked to Dara O’Rourke, who spent years roaming the floors of factories throughout the Third World as a watchdog on behalf of agencies like UNESCO. O’Rourke tells me that garment workers are most likely to get injuries like gashes around two in the morning, when weariness and poor lighting combine with missing equipment safety guards. Why are the lights so dim and safeguards missing? And why are they working through the wee hours of the night in the first place? So you and I can buy low-priced knock-offs of what walked down the runways of Milan just a few months before.

by Daniel Goleman

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