a grim but interesting headline

“What is your ‘slavery footprint’?”

All right, slavery is on the rise again, and none of us want to contribute to it. So it would be a good statistic to have access to– your “slavery footprint.”

But I hope they do it realistically rather than via exaggeration. I took one of those “carbon footprint” quizzes, and not only was the answer obviously ridiculous, it wasn’t itemized. That made it worthless, because you couldn’t decide “If I just stopped doing X, that would help the earth so-and-so much, so maybe I’ll stop.” Nor could I see things like “by not eating meat since age 7, you’ve helped the earth so-and-so much.” Instead, the motive seemed primarily to make you feel like crap. But that’s useless without specific carbon footprint advice.