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The fashion industry is responsible for 10 per cent of annual global carbon emissions. Which is 4 times that of all aviation.
by aero-glide2 6y ago
The fashion industry is responsible for 10 per cent of annual global carbon emissions. Which is 4 times that of all aviation.
- krageon 6y agoAnd it's entirely unimportant, which aviation definitely is not.
- twic 6y agoDoes "fashion industry" mean just Gucci handbags, or all clothes? Because i think the latter is not entirely unimportant.
- eggsmediumrare 6y agoThe fashion industry at this point is dominated by the fast fashion industry, which definitely doesn't need to exist.
- kube-system 6y agoI don't need pants from H&M, but I need pants from somewhere. Maybe the emissions are higher than necessary, but people do need to buy clothes occasionally. I'm not so sure that fast-fashion is entirely bad, either. Lower clothing prices have also been very beneficial for clothing the poor. Fast fashion is more of a cultural side-effect of the fact that clothing is now affordable. Before that, people who could regularly afford new clothes were just called 'wealthy'.
- krageon 6y agoWhile there is room for nuanced points to be made here, I was operating under the impression that we don't say someone in a basement fabbing a t-shirt is working in the "fashion industry". What's left is the parasites that design expensive handbags and dresses made of plastic, being sustained by FOMO and preying on institutionalised insecurity. That's leaving aside the fact that the way it treats it's models is plainly reprehensible, because the same case can be made for the sweatshop workers that end up crafting the clothes themselves.
- FredPret 6y agoWhy are Gucci handbags unimportant? Because they don’t matter to you? It takes all kinds to run a civilization, and fashion is critical to a large portion of the population.