Banksy's Classic Elephant..so apropos
Another sustainable article that tries to ignore the elephant in the room.
It is hard to read these facts without wanting to scream.
There is no way humans can continue to play the old game of make it, sell it, exploit the world, grow rich.
Rich in what?
The whol;e story is a bad joke and I am thinking we can do better and must!
excerpt from aan article a friend FYI'D
"The global textile industry is
valued at over $1 trillion, ranking as the second largest industry in terms of
intensity of trade. Textiles are also the fastest growing sector in household
waste. Discounting and low retail prices over the last two decades have led to
a dramatic increase in the consumption of clothing, with a resultant rise in
textile waste from the consumer. More than three million tons of textiles are
thrown away each year in the EU alone.
To address this growing challenge of
textile waste, VTT Technical Research Center of Finland and Aalto University
are participating in an EU project called Trash-2-Cash. The project
brings together designers, researchers, materials suppliers and textile
manufacturers from all over Europe to solve the problem by recycling and
development of high-performance fibers."
from SocialEarth
http://socialearth.org/textile-waste-turned-into-consumer-products
I had a
feeling before I read it that this article played the "justification" tuneg. Like recycling in general, it avoids
the issue of too much stuff, too many humans and lack of diversity in the economic, resource construct!
The
smart discourse needs to take the larger
picture and the details into focus at one time. This huge expansive
vision is do-able if various experts got out of the safe, comfy zones
and worked together to understand the complexities of what our species
is facing. The old ego needs to step back, take a deep breath and leap
into it's less defensive, open, vulnerable and loving side!
If more people moved out from ideas of owner/worker, class -I mean really -that
is so made up to support its own "reality" and tunnel, linear focus this species might really prove itself incredible!
The
entangled energies and possiblities that arrive in Quantum Physics, the
natural cycles, evolution and diversity for healthy ecosystems that
environmental sciences explore and learning how beliefs program our
lives and can be changed - this kind of knowledge,
if spread more widely, would certainly help us re-imagine a world that
follows
heart, soul, gut wisdom and is aligned with the super reality of a
living
planet, uni-verse.
So let us proceed!
So though this old
hack
of sensibility appears to be trying to maintain status quo utilizing
data and edited knowledge from the past, seems "normal" and comfortable
it is not going to solve anything
AAAACCCCKKKKK-----
Thank you! I needed that.
