LAW SOCIETY
FASHION IMPACT ON CLIMATE CHANGE By Bojana Bogojevic
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very year, on the fourth Friday in November, an unusual discount is organized all over the world: The well-known Black Friday. History of Black Friday At the end of the 19th century, the then American president, Abraham Lincoln, named the last Thursday in November a national holiday, Thanksgiving. On the first Friday after Thanksgiving, the biggest shopping activities start and the most profitable days for traders come. As the sellers wanted the previously realized large income to be repeated from year to year, they came up with the idea to call that day a holiday of shopping. That’s how Black Friday came to be – the first Friday after Thanksgiving. I assure you our planet is in desperate need to green Friday. What about FASHION FOOTPRINT? The clothes we all buy and wear have very often to majority of consumers unknown ecological and social footprint. but the good news is, it is avoidable. It is highly important to understand how your simplest T- shirt can cause a huge environmental impact by generating big amounts of CO2. Fashion became a huge enemy to climate change. We are already facing draught ad it’s consequences but what about information that for producing simplest shirt of 250grams it is estimated we need about 2,900 litres of water, and for cotton bud ( which are unhealthy to use according to otolaryngologists) we need 4 litres. Are you surprised? I was. I was very proud I stopped using cotton
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