Initial Ideas for Project #1
The Question: What does the future hold?
I want to focus on the environment and how the fashion industry is impacting it. Fashion is one of the top polluters in the world, due to excessive textile production, water usage, and CO2 emissions. Fast fashion and trends are producing high volumes of textile waste in our landfills. People constantly want new looks for cheap and throw away their clothes before it reaches the end of its lifecycle. Not only is fast fashion hurting our planet, but corporations are taking advantage of people in third world countries. They do not give their workers a living wage and their working conditions are unsafe. If we continue to hurt our environment then eventually the day will come where beautiful places like the picture above will no longer exist.
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I want to focus on the environment and how the fashion industry is impacting it. Fashion is one of the top polluters in the world, due to excessive textile production, water usage, and CO2 emissions. Fast fashion and trends are producing high volumes of textile waste in our landfills. People constantly want new looks for cheap and throw away their clothes before it reaches the end of its lifecycle. Not only is fast fashion hurting our planet, but corporations are taking advantage of people in third world countries. They do not give their workers a living wage and their working conditions are unsafe. If we continue to hurt our environment then eventually the day will come where beautiful places like the picture above will no longer exist.
I think this is a great topic. It is important that we preserve our environment, however the further developments in the clothing industry comes at the cost of the environment. Clothes are currently non-recycled for the most part. Maybe this problem will become worse and more quantifiable in the future
ReplyDeleteThis could be a lot of fine, while informing folks of health, environmental, and social-justice issues surrounding the clothing industry. Most people are unaware of the full impact consumer has on the world around us. I'm guessing you've watched The True Cost.
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