There was a documentary movie showed in SCAD Fash on this Thursday called The True Cost. It also could be found on Netflex and definitely worth watching. It talked about the fast fashion issue in fashion industry. I was really impressed about the environmental problems and health problems and labor problems in fashion industry, especially in the developing countries like India or China. These problems do not only exist in fashion industry, but also appear in many other industries like electronics or paper industry.

We may spend hundreds or thousands dollar on food, clothes and many other products each year, but not many people, including me, aware of where they are come from or who made them and how people’s life affected. That is also why the director Andrew Morgan making this film. The problems he discovered in this film are exactly what confusing me about the purpose of life. Both of us are trying to find out the right questions with our cameras.

I have lived in China for over 20 years. When living overseas and be away from home, I got chances to start thinking what China is and what problems Chinese people are facing. Of course I love China and I wish China will become better, hopefully much better. That is why I have to point out these problems. Statistics shows that the food we produced are just enough for the whole country, but there are still a great number of people are suffering from hunger. Also, the numbers of houses we have built today are much more than that twenty years ago, however, everyone feels that it is harder to buy a house due the price has increased dramatically. During the past two decades, the technology has developed greatly, the city I lived in looks completely different now. People produced much more products than why their needs and they are supposed to have a better life and be much happier than two decades. Surprisingly, the answer is negative. 

Moreover, I find these problems are not only appearing in China, they exist everywhere in human society in different forms. We may successfully eliminate hunger in most cities or maybe a whole country, but we still cannot get rid of hunger globally. Not because we are not able to produce enough food. Human has spent trillions of dollars on weapons development, outer space discovering, but some of us still suffering hunger and lacking of shelter. I think this is incredible.