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Wake up, sheeple! NYT opinion piece explains that if you wear clothes, 'you're part of the problem' of climate change

We’re always being told that there’s so much more we can be doing to fight climate change. Well, here’s something else to add to your list: lose the clothes.

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Oh.

Fighting climate change and the patriarchy all at once!

In her New York Times opinion piece, “The Conscious Closet: The Revolutionary Guide to Looking Good While Doing Good” author Elizabeth Cline writes:

The clothing and footwear industry is responsible for 8 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, nearly the same as the entire European Union, according to a study by the environmental services group Quantis. Without abrupt intervention, the industry’s impact on the climate is on track to increase by almost half by 2030.

But clothing does not appear to be mentioned in the Democratic candidates’ climate plans, nor in the Green New Deal proposed by House Democrats. And while it’s coming up more in coverage about low-emissions lifestyle changes, it’s still viewed as a problem mostly for fashionistas.

Indeed, caring about clothes is often considered frivolous, at odds with concern about the fate of the planet. The actor and environmentalist Woody Harrelson expressed this view when he hosted “Saturday Night Live” the week after the recent climate marches in New York. “I was always anti-fashion,” he said, “because it always seemed to me there were more important things to care about” — like melting ice caps, the Amazon burning, and the pollution of our water, air and food. Many people fail to see how the $2.5 trillion apparel industry is connected to our environment, which means we persistently pay no attention to how it might help us solve our climate crisis.

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Quite an honor.

Because the New York Times is not a serious news organization.

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Oh, that’s right. How could we have forgotten that asthmatics who want to be able to breathe are bad for the environment?

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Honestly, at this point, we’d say the New York Times editorial board is much bigger part of the problem.

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