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Because everyone wearing plastic fabrics is somehow better?
by kylebenzle 6y ago
Because everyone wearing plastic fabrics is somehow better?
- onion2k 6y agoEnvironmentally plastic is definitely worse, but the quantity of plastic used is tiny compared to the rest of the oil industry. The moral benefit comes from not farming animals to only use their fur. It's cruel and wasteful, and we have synthetic fur that's actually better than the real thing for warmth. The reason real fur is still used is because it's cheaper, which should tell you a lot about the conditions the animals are farmed in.
- eloff 6y agoI disagree, I would guess plastic has less overall cost to the environment. Think of the land and energy used raising food for the minks. Since neither of us are giving an empirical analysis, it's just one opinion vs another.
- jackdeansmith 6y agoDoesn't seem like there's a lot of research, but the one study I could find seems to agree that specifically the climate impact of natural fur is quite a bit higher than faux fur: https://www.cedelft.eu/en/publications/download/1538 https://www.cedelft.eu/en/publications/download/1538
- thelittleone 6y agoEveryone? What about cotton, linen, hemp?
- denkmoon 6y agoFwiw, cotton crops are incredibly water intensive. Probably a better solution than factory farming animals or releasing more plastics into the environment, but it's not perfect either.
- dfgdfgdfgdfgd 6y agoTHIS JUST IN, THINGS REQUIRE RESOURCES TO MAKE SENT FROM MY IPHONE
- rvense 6y agoI hear hemp is pretty good on all counts, though. But definitely buy less clothes, take better care of them, and make sure to give/sell the good ones you have but don't wear to second hand shops instead of just throwing them away.
- alliao 6y agoI went from a traditional dryer to a heatpump by bosch and I think my clothes just gained another 5yrs of lives... not sure if it's temperature related (80c vs 50c or so) but my clothes no longer pill at all
- jabl 6y agoThere's also research on making less environmentally damaging [1] cloth fibers from cellulose. [1] Compared to viscose etc.
- Hnrobert42 6y agoSomething has to give.
- bborud 6y agoThat’s a non sequitur.