Ship Breaker

What is where?

What's the issue?
There are many problems set around
the ship graveyard industry. For starters
child labor is frequent with kids as young as
12 out on the beach working for very little money
in dangerous work conditions. With ships being
broken down on the beach many toxins are
flowing into the water killing sea life as the toxins
ride down the coast doing major damage.

Why is it happening?
Bangladesh's economy isn't the strongest
and relies on the steel industry to make money
which the ship industry is a big supplier of. Kids
don't have a choice to work as they need to help
support the family and if the shipping company
doesn't take them some other workplace will take
them. Paying their workers very little is big part as
they can use the profits to get more ships and to hire
more workers speeding the process.

Why there?

Why in Bangladesh?
Bangladesh is a third world country which doesn't
meet the same legal requirements such as a
first world country. For this reason they can do stuff as;
dump toxic materials into the ocean, pay workers little to nothing, have child labor, leaving ships on the beach, and no safety requirements. Bangladesh is a big country having a population of 147 million, for this reason they can have more workers producing a greater work effort, they give these workers shacks and little food and keep them working into the night. As Bangladesh needs the steel production from ships the government will turn a blind eye to activities that are illegal. The environmental state of the country is at a low point as many things that make money for the country are harmful for the environment but overlooked as they prioritize money first.

Why care?

Why care about it if it doesn't impact you?
There are two big goals as humans that we must all come
together to achieve, everyone treated equally and keeping the Earth alive. The shipping industry and many other industries in Bangladesh slow progress to those goals. You have to consider that we don't choose where to be born and that growing up in Canada is a privilege that we overlook a lot.
People there don't have the same opportunity's we get just because they were born on rough spot of the globe, which isn't a good reason to deny them a real chance at life, which is why people have to help and support issues around the world.
Profits from production in Bangladesh would decrease due to the new environmental and humanitarian laws new safer workplaces would be founded providing basic essentials as no child labor, beds that aren't metal sheets and working for more than dollars a day.

Does the film impact me?
It's good that this information has been passed on
and spread to people who were uninformed about
conditions in the third world but the film won't change
the workers lives for a couple reasons. 1. When watching the film I didn't see anywhere that offered a donation number for people living in the harsh conditions of Bangladesh, this is small but if people who want to support the cause don't know where to start supporting the cause will fall through. In this day and age a lot people will throw their money at anything this could've been taken advantage of to send money over for workers to pay for their kids education or clothes and blankets. 2. The main issue is that ordinary people can't change a government across the world, it just doesn't happen like that in reality. It will be a while before Bangladesh can turn their ways and advancing their society as a whole. So people fighting for this change in cause will just be dismissed as the government can't give up steel production as their trade is low enough and they don't care what happens to environment as of right now.