Everyone is jumping
on board in an attempt to paint themselves as “green” and “sustainable”.
And the latest to squeeze on the green/sustainable wagon is
the fashion industry.
The Guardian says
in a story headed: “Fashion meets renewable energy – clothes that charge yoursmartphone”, that fashionably clothing using solar, wind and even kinetic
energy is able to charge devices, keep us connected and even donate our energy
to non-profits is being explored by a number of design houses.
As encouraging as clothes providing you with energy might
be, it is simply not enough.
Thoughtful people aware of what is needed to slow or even
stop climate change, argue we need to initially cut our emissions by at least
eighty per cent, immediately, followed by a quick jump to zero emissions and
then an almost immediate move to negative territory.
A few T-shirts, dresses or jackets is simply not going to be
enough rather, what we need is a meaningful and immediate change to how we live
– a significant social disruption that will see a society-wide move to a decidedly
different way of living.
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