Fashion industry emits more carbon than flights and maritime shipping combined

Re:Fashion industry emits more carbon than flights and marit... by agumonkey on Monday October 21, 2019 @06:32PM (#21318264)

Recently i've been paying attention to monthly dumps in the city. People seem to have an endless stream of things to throw away. It's said to be a time of crysis, and unless half the population decided to live without furnitures, it seems every body buys new things endlessly. Here goes the 'less consumerism, less shipping' advice.

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Re:Fashion industry emits more carbon than flights and marit... by Al-Khwarizmi on Tuesday October 22, 2019 @01:57AM (#21320730)

Furniture is now very cheap (also low-quality: Ikea, etc.), while housing is (in many areas) extremely expensive, so it's no wonder that people can be in a bad economic situation while being able to change furniture. Of course, it's sad, it should be the other way around, but it's the way current prices in most places work.

It's like the typical criticism that young people complain about their salaries but buy flagship smartphones. Yeah, iPhones and the like are technological wonders and 50 years ago they would have been a dream, but in many places they cost the equivalent of two weeks of rent... so why in hell would they not buy them? To save for two whooping weeks of rent?

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Re:Fashion industry emits more carbon than flights and marit... by BurningFrog on Monday October 21, 2019 @08:23PM (#21319099)

> It's said to be a time of crisis

The news will always tell you there is a Major Crisis, and things are Going To Hell.

That's what sells, and as long as you understand that, consuming news can be informative. But be careful to not base your worldview on the news.

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Re:Fashion industry emits more carbon than flights and marit... by baroffoos on Monday October 21, 2019 @10:07PM (#21319718)

This is not just news corps. Its well established scientific fact that we are in a state of environmental crisis and unless there is huge change to so many things in society we will be beyond the point of return.

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Re:Fashion industry emits more carbon than flights and marit... by BurningFrog on Monday October 21, 2019 @10:32PM (#21319880)

I know a lot of people say that, but have you heard it from real scientists?

Here is a "debunking" I like, from someone who actually read the IPCC report:

https://reason.com/2019/08/01/despite-what-democrats-said-at...

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Re:Fashion industry emits more carbon than flights and marit... by dsfyu404ed on Monday October 21, 2019 @07:45PM (#21318843)

Rich people throw away nice stuff. The trick to getting it is patience and the capacity to pick things up on a whim.

I've furnished my entire house with free stuff. It takes a log longer than just throwing your credit card at Ikea but the stuff fits my house so much better anyway. It's not clapped out junk either. It's mostly nice stuff from people moving and empty-nesters downsizing.

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Re:Fashion industry emits more carbon than flights and marit... by agumonkey on Tuesday October 22, 2019 @04:38AM (#21321436)

I live between poor and rich neighborhoods, both of them throw a massive amount of stuff. It's true that you can find better brand / rarer stuff in rich places but the volume is similar.

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