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Hey hey hey, we’ve done it, Homo sapiens! In 2025, as of today, we have extracted an entire year’s worth of what our planet can replenish. The rest of the “resources” we take to suit our annual need and greed now enters deficit mode.

Our concept of fashion is one major culprit.

Watch this recent video about fast fashion and ultra-fast fashion. (If you don’t know the difference now, you’ll know by the conclusion of the video.) The video suggests that social media algorithms target shoppers in places where people buy 12 new clothing items a year and do we really need this? Most of it (85%) is simply thrown away, and thereby added to the massive greenhouse gas flow generated through textile waste.

Excess from the fashion industry travels (on fuel-powered journeys) from the US and the EU to out-of-our-sight dumping........

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