A stock take on the fashion industry’s impact
Charlie Bradley Ross
Monday, 1 January 2024
In this Lesson, we discuss the issues currently faced by the fashion industry. It's a heavy topic, but don't let that stop you from carrying on with your great ideas. While it's easy to be disheartened, we must forge on in our shared mission to use fashion as a force for good.
We need creativity. We need passion. And we need people doing things the RIGHT way. In this Lesson, we aim to explain how.
In this video you'll learn:
- How the problems of the fashion industry can broadly be categorised as either human, animal exploitation, or environmental issues.
- The main contributors to environmental damage at the hands of the fashion industry.
- How humans suffer the devastating effects of the fashion industry, from refugees to modern slavery.
- The impact on animals beyond their use for fur, wool, leather, and other materials.
- How the fashion industry alone could be responsible for 38% of global emissions.
- How overconsumption and the trend for throw-away fashion is contributing to all three of fashion's biggest issues.
- What we need to do to reach our goal for a better industry by the 2030s.
- Possible solutions that we can all get on board with.
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