One huge economic impact of Covid-19 has been the damage done to the fashion retail industry, as shops closed their doors and customers vanished into their houses. Consequently, major companies cancelled their orders from garment factories in Bangladesh, India, Cambodia and many other countries.

How do we link the destruction of ecosystems and the Black Lives Matter movement? In this opinioin piece we look at how they’re systemically linked through the practices of extraction and exploitation in modern capitalism.

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