Are back-to-back hurricanes the price we’re willing to pay for trash fashion?

Fast fashion brand Shein posted major growth—the same week hurricanes left Florida in devastation.

Last week, while I received text alerts warning me that my mother needed to evacuate her Gulf Coast community as Hurricane Milton made landfall, and my sister who is a physician in North Carolina alerted me that she had to cancel her life-extending surgeries due to a shortage of insulin as a result of the prior week’s Hurricane Helene, I also received news of a different variety.