Posted on 12/10/2018 11:54:56 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
The multitrillion-dollar business of fashion, with its complex and long supply chain, is worryingly vexed with problems contributing to climate change.
The fashion industry emits more greenhouse gas than all international flights and maritime shipping journeys combined, and it's estimated that a garbage truck's worth of clothing is either burned or sent to a landfill every second. On top of that, thanks to our powerful washing machines, our clothes pollute the ocean with microfibers equating to approximately 50 million plastic bottles each year.
Conversation and action around sustainability and climate change has been quiet and slow to come within the sector, but Monday marks another move toward collective change. A fashion industry charter for climate action was formally launched at this year's United Nations climate change conference, COP24, in Katowice, Poland.
Aligned with the goals of the Paris Agreement, the new charter includes 16 principles and targets. The companies involved have committed to reducing their aggregate greenhouse gas emissions by 30% by 2030 and they've agreed to prioritize low-carbon transportation suppliers and favor climate-friendly materials.
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Dang. I guess no more burberry for me then. LOL! So all the “fashion” houses will cease production then?
[[Stella McCartney, Burberry among fashion brands uniting against climate change]]
Really? They are pouring their billions into the effort? No? Didn’t think so!
If they want to really fight climate change, im afraid they will have to close down their factories, as per Directive 904 from the Ministry of the Environment.
The benefit will be hosted at the “Derek Zoolander School for Kids Who Can’t Read Good”.
Reminds me of Columbo’s raincoat. I guess I just don’t get it.
Luxury brands.
Good thing I’ll never buy their overpriced crap.
Who needs clothing if it’s getting warmer?
Forget these guys! Go naked!
Or wear a palm frond.
That’s what the Warmists want. We all end up back in the caves wearing loinclothes shivering in the darkness.
Back in the 80s, I looked at a Burberry. $500. I stuck with my London Fog.
How many pollutants are caused by Burberry manufacturing. If Stella was truly concerned, she close the business.
I’ll stay with my Mossy Oak from Fleet Farm. $30.00
Don’t include me in that “most women.” Last pair of jeans were off the Walmart sales rack a good 10 years ago. Sewn my own shirts, etc. from flea market fabric since. Hey, artisan clothing, hand made and one of a kind. Should get my own label.
More than 30,000 attendees at this circle jerk. I wonder how much CO2 that released? No to mention the methane.
What are they going to do, protest in front of a volcano? Picket the Sun?
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Seems like the left is ramping up this climate change fantasy all over the place, as well as quadrupling down on getting rid of Trump. Now add to this extreme unrest in France and other European places.
I do see a world war brewing here, as in world civil war, with Russia, China, Iran and a few others just helping out by fueling the fires with propaganda and weapons and then moving in for the final kill on all of Western Civilization.
I have a feeling the rash of apocalyptic shows like Lost of yesteryear and the zombie shows of today are popular because many know such survivalism may be a way of the future.
“Sewn my own shirts, etc. from flea market fabric since.”
My former wife used to buy Vogue patterns, then sewed dresses and jackets for pennies on the dollar for what Vogue charged.
Which will put those Bangladeshi kids out of work.
Someone should call George Costanza’s father.....he may still have those stashed away.
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