Do you wear clothes? Do you like fashion? Well, all that extreme weather is your fault!
10,000 liters of water are needed to produce a pair of jeans. Long supply chains and energy intensive production make #fashion the 2nd most polluting industry on the planet. Find out how @UN organizations support the shift to #sustainablefashion https://t.co/0uzaRvHXGE pic.twitter.com/IzT7YOEXQ9
— UN Climate Change (@UNFCCC) August 16, 2018
From the screed
With the help of the UN, the world’s USD 2.5 trillion USD fashion industry is shifting to more sustainable business models which can help fight climate change and achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.
The fashion industry, including the production of all clothes which people wear, contributes to around 10% of global greenhouse gas emissions due to its long supply chains and energy intensive production. Â The industry consumes more energy than the aviation and shipping industry combined.
Shifting practices in the fashion industry to reduce carbon emissions is key to limiting warming to as close to 1.5°C above pre-Industrial Revolution levels, in line with the goals of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change.
In addition to its carbon intensive supply chain and production processes, the fashion industry consumes a great deal of other precious resources.
See? It’s all your fault….wait, 1.5C? The Paris Agreement was on 2C. Did they just arbitrarily decide to change it? Anyway, not your fault for buying and wearing clothes, it’s the fault of those who make them.
From a truly environmental point of view, changing practices is not a bad idea, because there is a lot of water and material waste in production, along with the waste of used clothing going to landfills. But, that’s environmental, and has very little to do with anthropogenic climate change.
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