No one can pretend they have not heard of the ash cloud that disrupted our air travel, the repurcussions of which are still being felt. If all air flights one day got completely banned what would happen to our clothes? Garment export accounts for 80% of export earnings.
There is 1000 tonnes of Bangladeshi garments sitting at Dhaka airport. Should we be relying on another country for such a large amount of goods? What if air flights were banned forever, where would our clothes come from?
So many of the UK’s manufacturing services are outsourced. In the last ten years we have seen nearly every big company move call centres and factories off shore in an effort to drive down costs. It seems they accounted for every cost except the environmental cost.
Garment factories have been indicated as a good source of development for a poor economy. But in this vulnerable and volatile climate age should we be looking at other methods of development?
What do you think? Should we start making our own clothes here in the UK and let the people in India and Bangladesh make clothes just for the people in their country. It seems unfair that they have to make so many tonnes of clothes which they aren’t even going to wear. Let us hear your opinions.
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