I *knew* that companies have been trying to shift blame for damage to the environment onto regular people's buying habits, but it has still somehow been a shock to research a topic and find the internet totally dominated by the narrative that "consumerism" and the desire to buy more stuff is entirely responsible for pollution and landfill waste, instead of factors such as planned obsolescence.
It's insidious—this widespread idea that average people are too greedy, and that's what fuels climate change and pollution. Not greedy companies.
"Consumers shop for clothes to stay on-trend and throw away perfectly good old clothes." "Consumers only wear clothes a few times before throwing them away." "A huge amount of landfill waste comes from clothing that consumers throw out." "Consumers replace their wardrobes arbitrarily to stay on-trend." "Consumer demand for 'fast fashion' is rising spite of the environmental impacts."
Statements like this make it sound like regular people want to buy and waste vast amounts of resources, and normal people's unchecked addiction to shopping is causing environmental devastation. It's horribly misleading when products are being deliberately designed to break or wear out within one or two years and to be impossible to repair.
Instead of "Americans are buying way more clothes than they did 20 years ago, causing lots of landfill waste!"
Where are the articles entitled "Clothing brands are selling poorly-made clothes that have to be replaced much more often than 20 years ago, causing lots of landfill waste!"
when they said “question everything you hear” it did in fact include what the left projects onto walls and calls you a bigot for questioning.
you should question something that you hear over and over again with no further explanation provided.
question, think, and research until you get an answer.
Stencils seen in Iran featuring the names and faces of women murdered by cops during the ongoing protests following the death of Jina Mahsa Amini, a 22 year old Kurdish woman who was murdered by the morality police after being arrested and beaten for supposedly incorrectly wearing a hijab.
For Mehsa, Nika, Sarina, Mino, Hadith, Hajar, Hadida, Hanana, Aisan and every other woman whose life was stolen these days, because she cried out for freedom.
We’ve never seen anything like this in the Islamic Republic of Iran…
Schoolgirls without mandatory hejab, chanting "We don't want the Islamic Republic" and "Khamenei is a murderer, his reign is nullified.” And it’s happening in several places.
Tons more at the source!
The rise of vegan leather, which is typically made from polyurethane, a type of plastic that has a more favorable Higg rating, has brought unintended consequences, industry officials say. Even as leather is replaced by synthetics, Americans are still eating lots of beef — which means the hides from those slaughtered cattle have nowhere to go. In 2020, a record 5 million hides, or about 15 percent of all available, went to landfills, according to the U.S. Hide, Skin and Leather Association, a Washington-based trade group.
“They’re throwing the hides in the offal barrels out back,” said Ron Meek, a former meat processor who has been helping smaller plants weather the downturn in leather demand.
This fight didn't start because the people are hungry, not because they are unemployed, not because they have no hope, no future, not because the corruption is out of control, not because the people in power have stolen all the money from oil, gas, ressources. No. It started because one 22 year old girl Mahsa Amini died for not covering her hair. It started for women. Now Men are out there fighting, risking their lives shoulder to shoulder with women. Their mothers, wives, friends, lovers, sisters and daughters. This is the world we need. Everyone standing up, for each other. Against oppression, against ignorance. Long live the spirit of Iran which never dies. Long live this country and its people. After hundreds of years of oppression, they still have a heart of gold that burns in dignity and caring love for one another. Long live people of Iran🇮🇷🕊
🔴Trigger Warning for the video🔴
11-Year-Old Girl: "I got pregnant from being raped. I need an abortion."
Conservative Dipshit: "Absolutely not! Life is sacred! You must do whatever you can to save the life of your unborn baby!
11-Year-Old Girl: "I'm not in the best situation to be able to do that. If saving lives is so important to you, I'm willing to donate blood.
Conservative Dipshit: "You can't do that. You're too young. It's not safe. You don't know what effect donating blood could have on your body. You should wait until you're older for that."
11-Year-Old Girl: "Do you even hear yourself?"