The Link Between Child Labour and Sustainabililty
Child labour links to all of the types of sustainability. This is how:
Environmental
Environmental sustainability is not destroying the nature around us and not digging up fossil fuels. Not cutting down trees, or polluting the air we breathe, by driving cars and releasing non-environmentally-friendly gases.
Economic
Economic sustainability is having a prosperous and fair economy, whilst being environmentally, socially and humanly sustainable at the same time.
Human
Human sustainability is being able to sustain a human's needs without destroying the world we live in. Also, making sure humans get treated fairly. If the world was humanly sustainable, there would be no poverty or world hunger etc.
Social
Social sustainability encompasses human rights, excessive labor etc. The world is not socially sustainable because there is a huge presence of war in many countries and many rules people find unfair, like how people have to work in unfair conditions.
Environmental
Environmental sustainability is not destroying the nature around us and not digging up fossil fuels. Not cutting down trees, or polluting the air we breathe, by driving cars and releasing non-environmentally-friendly gases.
- Some of the raw materials that are used for manufactured goods come from sources that use child labour in the process.
- Child labour is not environmentally sustainable, because these poor children aren't working for a good cause - many are digging for non-renewable products.
Economic
Economic sustainability is having a prosperous and fair economy, whilst being environmentally, socially and humanly sustainable at the same time.
- If child labour is banned, companies that use child labour might go redundant because of the loss of employment. Companies will then have to employ employees that they will have to pay properly.
- We, as humans need find another way of sustaining our resources so that child laborers don't have to work.
Human
Human sustainability is being able to sustain a human's needs without destroying the world we live in. Also, making sure humans get treated fairly. If the world was humanly sustainable, there would be no poverty or world hunger etc.
- Children should not have to work when they are 5 years old.
- They should not have to get beaten for not working fast enough or for doing something wrong.
- Often victims of child labour or forced labor do not attend school. Attending school is of key importance - everyone needs proper education and a good life.
Social
Social sustainability encompasses human rights, excessive labor etc. The world is not socially sustainable because there is a huge presence of war in many countries and many rules people find unfair, like how people have to work in unfair conditions.
- Some employers do not allow the child labourers to talk during work-time. In this case, the levels of social sustainability would be poor because it will not allow the children to bond through verbal communication.
- Child labour is not a form of sustainability because it is unfair on the children working, and it isn't right.