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ead the following articles:
Don’t Feed the Monster! The People Who Have Stopped Buying New Clothes (The Guardian, Feb. 19, 2019)
‘The Milkman Model’: Big Brand Names Try Reusable Containers (AP, Jan. 24, 2019)
The Environmental Costs of Fast Fashion (The Independent, Jan. 8, 2018)
The Diet for a Healthy Planet: What Should Environmentalists Eat? (The Guardian, Jan. 27, 2019)
Avoiding Meat and Dairy Is ‘Single Biggest Way’ to Reduce Your Impact on Earth (The Guardian, May 31, 2018)
The Big Lie That We’re Told About Climate Change is That It’s Our Own Fault (Vox, Nov. 27, 2018)
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Submit your answers to the following questions here via Canvas:
What are two major environmental impacts from clothing manufacturing? How often do you buy new clothes? What do you do with the clothes you’ve stopped wearing?
How is the fashion industry affecting the planet? What are two things you learned that you did not know before reading about this?
Do we all need to become vegans to make any kind of noticeable change? Why or why not?
What could you realistically change in your life to reduce the amount of stuff that you consume? (we’ll talk about plastic in a couple of weeks, so think of other parts of your life).
Why should individuals still try to reduce their consumption, but how can we as Americans lessen our impact on the planet?
