Posted on 04/07/2024 9:23:57 AM PDT by Libloather
These bottoms are getting a bum rap.
Bootcut, low-rise, skinny or straight — jeans reign supreme as a stylish staple in most wardrobes worldwide.
For decades, denim designs have graced the dapper derrière likes of Marilyn Monroe, Princess Diana, Taylor Swift and Kanye West.
The haute timelessness of the togs notwithstanding, recent research from Guangdong University of Technology found that wearing a pair of fast-fashion jeans just once creates a whopping 2.50 kg of carbon emissions. The environmental wear-and-tear of the pants is equivalent to driving 6.4 miles in an average gasoline-powered car.
“This study took jeans as an example to reveal the carbon footprint of fast fashion consumption and its additional climate impacts compared to traditional fashion,” wrote the authors of the new report, set for publishing in May 2024.
“Jeans production and cross-broad transportation contributed 91 % of the carbon footprint of fast fashion consumption,” added the experts.
And they’re not just pulling your leg.
To determine the CO2 effects, scientists followed the life cycle of a pair of jeans that were quickly produced, shipped, worn, washed and discarded after about seven uses.
The stages are all part of speedy sequences that most modern clothes follow owing to the increasingly buzzy “fast-fashion” trend. The movement sees retailers such as Shein, Zara, BooHoo and Forever 21 using an excess of resources and energy to crank out cutesy swag at accelerated rates.
It’s a hurried process to answer the growing demand of chronic shopaholics who want the latest and greatest looks at low costs.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
so if you wear them 100 times it’s money in the bank... right???
Well of course if you only wear something once it’s bad for the earth. I mean the trash level alone. Now if you wear it to death... different matter.
how asinine can the left get? Let us count the ways 1: “Wearing Jeans causes climate change”
it’s like trying to argue with insane asylum inmates- You can’t win because they are incapable of understanding logic and common sense, and because they ignore facts, such as ‘man’s CO2 is nowhere near enough to change the climate one iota-”
“I get my jollies by bossing around everyone I see. And if you don’t do everything I tell you to do, then it’s bad for the earth. And you’re racist.”
Oh well back to leather and fur.
I think I have worn my jeans more than 7 times. Many, many, many more times because they are bluejeans and are durable. That is one of the reasons they were made the way they are.
I’m sitting here wearing blue jeans and Weejuns. Still stuck in the 60s, I guess.
That's ridiculous. They're not even broken in until way past that.
Stupid article, based on stupid assumptions.
I’ll take “You can make a study conclude ANYTHING!” for $100, Alex.
Since wearing jeans is “bad for the earth”, how about I just purchase them, put them on my shelf and not wear them. That sounds like it is perfectly fine.
Actually, all the people who believe this nonsense are living in a lie and, for the good of the earth, should immediately off themselves. If not, what is their excuse for not doing so? Every single thing they do including breathing impacts CO2. The goal is obviously de-industrialization and depopulation, the true believers must be the ones to set the example by offing themselves.
The next time I drive my SUV 6.4 miles wearing my jeans, I’m going to say a little thank-you prayer for Cotton and Oil...and hope these idiots would all just stop breathing to save the earth.
“the carbon footprint of fast fashion consumption”
I have never worn (nor will ever wear) anything called “fast fashion.”
I doubt my Walmart “Rustler” jeans count as “fast fashion,” anyway, so I’m off the hook.
What a bunch of neurotic people.
“cross-broad transportation”
Trust me, you never want to cross a broad when it comes to transportation. My ‘62 Bug crossed a few of them and I’ll never forget it.
I’m sure a few of mine are 30 years old, maybe more. They are just getting broken in.
These people are so stupid that they’re not even aware they should be embarrassed about their stupidity. I don’t even try to use logic with them because they are incapable of even perceiving the concept of logic.
“worn, washed and discarded after about seven uses”
Never in my lifetime have I ever worn any pair of jeans just seven times. For most of them I cannot even count how many times they were worn - usually worn until they were “worn out”.
Again, “fast fashion” is, like “fandom” another thing not far very far removed from idol worship.
By the Left’s lights EVEYTHING causes “climate change” and the earth can only be “redeemed” if humans get back to survivalist subsistence living.
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