Fast Fashion Costs by Jacob Smith

Fast Fashion Costs uncovers the hidden environmental and social price tags attached to trendy, inexpensive clothing. It explores how the rapid production cycle fuels environmental degradation through intensive resource use, pollution from textile dyeing, and massive textile waste. Did you know that cotton farming's heavy reliance on water and pesticides contributes significantly to environmental damage? Or that synthetic fabrics add to the problem, as they are non-biodegradable and increase carbon footprint?

The book also sheds light on labor exploitation in garment factories globally, where workers face low wages and unsafe conditions. The pursuit of low prices often destabilizes local economies, perpetuating poverty and economic imbalances.

This book highlights that the fast fashion model is unsustainable and socially unjust, presenting a critical analysis of the industry's impacts and a call for ethical consumerism and responsible practices. The book progresses across chapters that thoroughly investigate environmental degradation, ethical labor concerns, and economic imbalances, presenting facts and analysis to support its central argument.