Reply #27: BAD...the environmental damage lasts for generations....the low

[diamond14]

wages are part of the exploitation, but a real cost savings for mega-corporations is the total LACK of any environmental or occupational laws...so the solvents, glues, polymers, and plastics manufactured for NIKE shoes are simply dumped on the ground or into surface water...

go to any third world country and look at the industrial discharges...it's really inhumane...many chemicals simply don't degrade at all or take years or transform into even more toxic chemicals...some chemicals cause birth defects, genetic defects, deformities, cancers, hormonal imbalances, deaths....

it is horrible corporate crime...NIKE doesn't want to pay for the proper use and disposal of chemicals in the USA, so they just move jobs to any country where there are NO RULES OR REGULATIONS, so NIKE can just make all that much more obscene profits at the cost of human health and lives, and the health of their children, and many generations to come...the full cost of the shoes is never assumed by NIKE, and just like here in America, future generations will be stuck with the very expensive environmental clean-up costs, and NIKE will be long gone as the toxic long-term chronic effects set in from drinking polluted water and eating food grown on polluted soils...