What Needs to Happen to Tackle Fashion’s Climate Impact
We must ban synthetic fibers (which now account for a huge percentage of clothing inputs) and replace with not yet available recycled fibers from plastic bottles (we will still have plastic bottles allowed?), or natural fibers only: cotton, wool and so on.
In fact, governments are pushing to pass The Fashion Act to regulate the clothing industry.
There is much opportunity for improvement in fashion, starting with – do people really need “the latest fashions”? Do we really need big fashion shows in NYC, Paris and Milan, to which people fly from all over the world?
Clothing is seldom recycled. Clothing and their inputs are shipped all around the world. As Peter Zeihan notes in “The End of the World is Just the Beginning”, raw cotton is harvested in country A, shipped to country B where it is converted into cotton threads, then that is shipped to country C where the threads are turned into fabric, and the fabric is shipped to, say, country D in southeast Asia, where it is turned into clothing, which is then shipped to country E in Europe or North or South America. After being worn for a time, most clothing ends up in landfills.
The author of the first story, at top, is a globally elite, Canadian and Lebanon national, who speaks 4 languages and lives and works in New York. She is working with organizations in the U.S., Canada, Lebanon and Qatar. She has studied in Canada and France per her LinkedIn profile She has a BA in cybermeda and media arts. She is an anti-colonialist fashion industry activist, per her own web site. She is focused on “existential crises such as climate change and human injustices”. Obviously, she is a global traveler too.
