Employment — Masters v Servants: For each Swiss person, three people work elsewhere to support their lifestyles. In Madagascar, 7 in 10 locals work full-time to produce exports for affluent people.
Air pollution: An increase in health impacts in China come from air pollution linked to production for people in the United States.
Water scarcity: Almost 80 percent of the EU’s consumption of scarce water occurs outside its borders, with the largest pressure exerted in the stressed Indus Delta straddling Pakistan and India.
Biodiversity: US consumption exerts threats to marine life in Southeast Asia; and biodiversity in southern Brazil — such as deforestation of the Amazon for soy production.
Resources: Outsourcing to developing countries has meant most developed countries did not need to improve resource productivity in the past few decades.
Child labour: In 2011/2012, almost 1 million children in India worked for exports alone.
Safety: Per 100,000 workers in global supply chains, occupational health and safety incidents lead to the loss of US$2 million, 27,000 working days, 4,800 injuries and 12 deaths per year.
Inequality: Many developed countries exhibit a large inequality footprint because their imports stem from production with highly unequal wages, gender inequality and corruption.
— source University of Sydney | 1 May 2018