Over 50 years ago, my wife, Malinda, and I bought a chef’s knife of carbon steel that we still use.
Compare that to the junk stainless steel ones that might not rust but that won’t hold an edge to cut a tomato.
The culprit: our overconsumption of stuff, from shoddy tools to fast fashion that is trendy one day, trash the next.
Turning these and other raw materials into final products releases one-fifth of all carbon emissions.
Research links demand for goods in Western Europe and the United States to the premature deaths of more than 100,000 people in China because of industrial air pollution.
Persons:
Malinda
Locations:
Western Europe, United States, China