Entry #3 Vice Article

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 For this blog entry, I decided to write on a Vice article from 2017 explaining how the fashion industry is negatively affecting the environment. This article briefly discusses the dark side of the fashion industry and how its pollution is negatively affecting the environment. I believe that this report is slanted because it discusses matters such as climate change which is usually a left leaning perspective. It also pushes the narrative to be more green and to get people to care about over consumption.

    This Article constantly uses logos and pathos throughout this report to try and stress the point that what they are saying is important. The first sentence of this report states, "A sobering new report has revealed the true scale of fashion's impact on the environment". It uses buzz words such as sobering and true scale to guilt trip the reader into reading more about this report. Throughout this paper, the author dramatizes their word choice to better communicate their position on this matter. This article also includes statistics such as "half a million tonnes of plastic microfibers from clothing making their way into the ocean each year." They use numbered statistics to give the reader a better scale of how much the fashion industry is producing yearly.

    In this report, the author clearly caters to a more environmentally friendly audience. It uses statements that lean into a more leftist narrative. The author is writing about this to spread awareness about all the pollution the fashion industry produces yearly. It gives clear examples of how the fashion industry in negatively affecting the environment. The author expects the reader to have some sort of idea about the climate and provides little context behind their statements. The topic of the fashion industry is being showcased in a negative light to encourage the reader to not over consume.

    Even though this report has a clear bias towards being eco-friendly, I think that this article still provides sound evidence and reasoning. I believe it is the readers job to be attentive to what they read and seek out opposing perspectives to not be easily influenced by slanted reports.