Not only will you own nothing in the future, but you’ll also be wearing nothing.
The haute timelessness of the togs notwithstanding, recent research from Guangdong University of Technology found that wearing a pair of fast-fashion jeans just once creates a whopping 2.50 kg of carbon emissions.
…making fast-fashion finery emits ghastly amounts of greenhouse gasses (GHG) — which cause global warming and climate change — into the atmosphere.
Seven uses? The conclusion was based upon people wearing clothes just seven times before discarding them?
I get at least seven years worth of wear out of a pair of jeans before they may finally develop a hole too big to be ignore and have to be discarded.
What more need be said? The study is an utter joke and the conclusion not worth the paper on which it is printed.
“Fast fashion finery” -they’re not talking about SDA readers who still have their gym shirt from high school.
Seven uses would be a lot for some people. I knew a woman who would buy new clothes instead of doing laundry.
I have detailed here how I worked with young women who worked for a cleaning company. The young women had a Grade 9 or 10 education and would wear clothing purchased on line from cheap Chinese Companies. And yes, they would only wear it for the summer and then throw it out because it had fallen apart. I tried to encourage them to buy better quality clothing which would last years, but they were “just not interested”. They constantly wanted new “crap”.
Agreed. About ten years ago I ceased buying disposable clothing and now try to buy only products that will outlive me. Cuts down on trips to Walmart by a whole bunch!
I buy Under Armor. Comfy, cheap, lasts forever. I wear stuff I bought in 2010, still hanging in there.
Who has so much money they wear a pair of jeans once? Nobody does that. More lying from China, shocker.
Agreed.
I wear jeans almost every day. I would be surprised if any of my jeans have less than 700 wearings before being discarded, let alone 7.
Fashion conscious people must waste extreme quantities of money and material.
“[…] greenhouse gasses (GHG) — which cause global warming and climate change — into the atmosphere.”
Well, that’s true, but only in models that have never been validated and have no record of successful predictions.
As far as what is actually happening the various 30 or so distinct climates on Earth? There’s no evidence that CO2 is driving anything other than generating money for those playing the CO2 game.
From the country that hasn’t invented anything since gunpowder – over a 1000 years ago – these 5 Guandonger assholes should STFU because they’re obviously pretty stupid.
Useless eaters shouldn’t draw attention to themselves.
Why on earth would anyone listen to anything reporting on carbon emissions from any institution in China?
I run my pants until they are rags.
What are these rich parasites’ excuse?
Motivating me to go out and buy about 20 more pair of jeans. Now I have to find ones that don’t fart.
At some point we need to break this topic down to its pragmatic essentials, which are that when people are not allowed to heat or cool their homes, light their homes, travel to work, eat (yes, eat period), nor do anything else they need do to survive, they will die. So it doesn’t matter if one cares about the planet (the entire climate change theory is non-scientific THEORETICAL nonsense anyway), what matters is if one cares sufficiently not to permit society to exterminate us.
Bet you didn’t know this:
Soy based food products cause increased flatulence…and add to the imaginary methane problems.
Every 5 year old used to know beans were the magical fruit.
Hahahahaha!!!
In our house, beans were the musical fruit.
Hmm. I think you’re right. Musical makes more sense. Works either way though.
That fashion jeans are worn only 7 times isn’t surprising when the damn things come new with stupid rips and tears and burns. Basically idiots buy jeans worth $20 that have $300 worth of rips and tears in them. Can’t understand why they buy that crap and wanting to look like homeless street people