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History of Sustainable Development In 1983, the United Nations created the World Commission on Environment and Development to study the connection between ecological health, economic development, and social equity. The commission, then run by former Norwegian prime minister Gro Harlem Brundtland, published a report in 1987 that has become the standard in defining sustainable development. That report describes sustainable development, or the blueprint for attaining sustainability, as "meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.
I agree with everything besides the statement about GMOs in clothing. The fear-mongering around GMOs is not scientifically sound, especially when GMO crops can have a lower environmental impact than organic crops and require fewer pesticides. There's an assumption that organic automatically means better, which is false.
🤔 You mean thrift stores anticipate 80% of everything getting shipped overseas or thrown away, yet they still charge prices that aren’t much lower than discount chains…. Here’s an idea: LOWER YOUR #%^* PRICES! So LOCAL people who are struggling can afford them. 🤯
The clothes don't fall apart fast.... (which implies that the skilled workers who made the garments produce shoddy goods) ......it's the _cut_ that's bad to begin with, causing people to buy clothes that look good on social media but aren't garments that they actually want to _WEAR_ ....so they end up in landfills when the actual quality of the stitching is great!
@@jagadish1580 I make most of my own clothing and I have been doing so for most of my adult life. I'm naturally gifted at pattern-making but sewing is still a challenge for me even after 30 years lol. I look closely at the stitching in any clothes I buy and most clothing is stitched well.
you/ problem is how much is yourlife worth toys cars boats planes motercycles ,,,,,,people destroy everything but humanity,,,,ratio of man to ratio of horses & everything else to man ,,,comintators gone ,,butdeathman wants no solutions
This is exactly what I do, I chose clothes made of 100% organic natural materials such as cotton, wool, linen, hemp...etc or a blend of two or more only natural fabrics. But there still a problem that you can't know if the thread that is used to sew for a certain garment is made of only cotton, natural fabrics or a blend of polyester and cotton or 100% polyester. The bottoms and other details are often 99,9% are made of plastic which makes the garment in the end of it's life not biodegradable and som plastics will be burned or stay in the nature and break down to microplastics and then nano particles. I mean eventhough I try to avoid buying plastics in textiles, I still unfortunately get some plastics which the planet don't need to deal with it. I never found a company who sells a 100% biodegradable clothing and products for the daily life and that is sad. Sometimes I feel that I'm more conscious about the environmental impact of our consumption of plastic and other toxic products because the others don't care this much or don't even try to think and understand this perspective. The more conscious you become the lonelier you feel in this world!
Yes, the EU is largely more walkable and transit oriented. But the housing stock is not prepared for the current energy costs. Many are poorly built in terms of air flow, heating, cooling and lack of maintenance. Most built before the 80s have almost no insulation. Few have ceiling fans. AC is not common. Many lack enough windows for airflow. The old Centros are amazing but from Pisa to Prato most are two to three story walk ups that are boring. Most in the EU live in housing that are typical apartments that are not suited for what is coming. They are car dependent too. I can't tell you how many piazza's in Italy are just parking lots. Yes, the US is too care centric which leads to sprawl, obesity and a land of sterile beige homes. The costs to make our urban areas more walkable, energy efficient and equitable will be staggering. In Italy, most buildings are at the lowest level of efficiency - G.
It's sad that most factories of those "fast fashion brand" are set up in countries like India, Bangladesh, Vietnam, Myanmar etc while most consumers are from Western countries. A single person in America will produce roughly 4 to 5 waste of people combined in India. And they the audacity to teach us Environmental science 🤧
