This overlooks that 100% cotton jeans will break down when they are discarded (unlike polyester and nylon). A good pair of jeans can be mended and worn for many years instead of a new pair every year. Jeans can lead a very useful “after life” as insulation or be recycled into new fabric.
It also ignores the chemicals and energy required to turn beechwood and bamboo into wearable fabric.
I don’t know what the solution is but natural fabrics aren’t the enemy.
you make a good point about how clothing doesn’t just exist for the life of the first wearing. Impact also looks largely at how it’s discarded and washed and that is a huge factor.
Cotton isnt leaving behind microplastics in your water like polyester. So even the shower claim is non comparable. At least the water is left cleaner with with cotton.
But then we can’t be too ideal like they aren’t taking up space on the planet to produce. Like how people were about ecars Vs combustible.
Cotton is just the lesser evil here.
My friend are you completely ignoring ethical nudism here? Fabric and clothing is just a capitalist mind game to shame you into covering yourself. We were born naked and goddammit I’ll die naked.
Eschew the tank top and embrace tankie topless.
/s
(Let’s bring back flour sack clothing tho)
“-And at home you’re probably using harmful detergents”
Wow, fuck off meme. I’m gonna buy more jeans than ever now
100 square feet of land per pair of jeans sounds downright reasonable to me.
Defintely more reasonable than leather pants. And if we changed the dyes/chemical treatments, 100% cotton jeans could be biodegradable with their zippers and buttons removed which is better than materials like polyester. Of course most jeans these days are a mix of materials.
I mean, I think an all natural color pair of jeans would be badass; I’d buy that.
Wouldn’t that just be white cotton? Or do you mean natural colored dyes?
White cotton but without the bleaching, so more off white, I guess. I’m not actually sure what it would be.
Probably like linen yellow/brown but uneven
So kinda a piss/soiled color. Sign me up!! Please charge me more so I feel like I’m helping the environment more than other people.
so ur saying all the boys should wear skirts
and maybe thigh high stockings
hmm
But where do trans women hide their 2600 gallons of water?
I wear handmade modern kilts, they’re pretty good
Who is able to take a 6 minute shower?
Mine usually take 11 minutes, thereabouts.
Right?
That made me suspicious of the methodology on all the other points.
I’m a guy with short hair, so I’ve probably got the shortest possible shower, and even going fast I’m around 10 minutes. If I’m not in a hurry and use the specific face scrub and a separate conditioner I’m in the 15-18 range.
You forgot the impact to pissed Lemmy users.
Jeans are killing the world…
Got it, use California to make jeans.
The oddest thing about this to me is how multiple people have said they take longer than 6 minute showers. That’s crazy to me.
Lots of people stepping out of the shower to downvote
