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[-] Cagi@lemmy.ca 121 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Without providing an alternative, this infographic (not a meme) is useless to me. For all I know, every other kind of trouser is worse. Without a source for the data, it could all just be lies.

[-] pennomi@lemmy.world 58 points 4 months ago

Anything but nudism is unethical!

[-] HuntressHimbo@lemm.ee 15 points 4 months ago

Anarcho😏primativ😏ism

[-] getoffthedrugsdude@lemmy.ml 12 points 4 months ago

What about the nevernudes??

[-] pennomi@lemmy.world 11 points 4 months ago

Straight to jail

[-] AA5B@lemmy.world 26 points 4 months ago

The biggest problem is that artificial fabrics are better if you only use these measures. Nylon doesn’t require arable land, or fertilizers, nor take the place of food production. Nylon is much lighter so far more efficient to ship. I don’t know about manufacturing water or co2, but I wouldn’t be surprised if nylon wins.

This is why it’s not that easy. This is why “plastics” will be impossible to stop using. Do we really think it’s beneficial to continue down the path of fewer natural fabrics, even if common metrics say it is?

As you said , we need alternatives, including why. Some of that may be additional metrics (anyone concerned about micro plastics in wastewater?). Otherwise this just creates stress and hopelessness.

[-] zephr_c@lemm.ee 26 points 4 months ago

I mean, I'm pretty sure I couldn't hide 2,600 gallons of water in my jeans.

[-] FartsWithAnAccent@lemmy.world 13 points 4 months ago

Have you even tried???

[-] Narauko@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago

May I introduce you to JNCO?

[-] WhiteOakBayou@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago

The dad jeans the young women are wearing have wider legs to hide all the extra water

[-] rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

Not with that attitude.

[-] QTpi@sh.itjust.works 70 points 4 months ago

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.

[-] Smoogs@lemmy.world 16 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

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.

[-] PainInTheAES@lemmy.world 13 points 4 months ago

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)

[-] AnarchoSnowPlow@midwest.social 35 points 4 months ago

For something I can easily wear for a decade this seems like it might be less impactful than other alternatives.

[-] jpreston2005@lemmy.world 28 points 4 months ago

"-And at home you're probably using harmful detergents"

Wow, fuck off meme. I'm gonna buy more jeans than ever now

[-] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 22 points 4 months ago

You could take 2400 showers (based on 30 second shower time)

Who takes a 6 minute shower, unless they're in a drought?

[-] Stern@lemmy.world 18 points 4 months ago

so ur saying all the boys should wear skirts

and maybe thigh high stockings

hmm

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 9 points 4 months ago

But where do trans women hide their 2600 gallons of water?

[-] hswolf@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago

I wear handmade modern kilts, they're pretty good

[-] pennomi@lemmy.world 14 points 4 months ago

100 square feet of land per pair of jeans sounds downright reasonable to me.

[-] FireRetardant@lemmy.world 11 points 4 months ago

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.

[-] pennomi@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

I mean, I think an all natural color pair of jeans would be badass; I’d buy that.

[-] FireRetardant@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

Wouldn't that just be white cotton? Or do you mean natural colored dyes?

[-] pennomi@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

White cotton but without the bleaching, so more off white, I guess. I’m not actually sure what it would be.

[-] WhiteOakBayou@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago

Probably like linen yellow/brown but uneven

[-] boatsnhos931@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

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.

[-] Gork@lemm.ee 12 points 4 months ago

Who is able to take a 6 minute shower?

Mine usually take 11 minutes, thereabouts.

[-] al4s@feddit.de 8 points 4 months ago

Rookie numbers, it takes me a solid 30mins

[-] hydrospanner@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

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.

[-] THE_MORTAL@lemmy.today 10 points 4 months ago

Is it supposed to be a shit post or is this accurate ? Can someone less lazy than me fact check ?

[-] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 8 points 4 months ago

Econudist memes

[-] XEAL@lemm.ee 3 points 4 months ago

You forgot the impact to pissed Lemmy users.

[-] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 2 points 4 months ago

rape the planet. shes dressed like she wants it

[-] PoliticallyIncorrect@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

Jeans are killing the world..

[-] RIP_Cheems@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago

Got it, use California to make jeans.

[-] WhiteOakBayou@lemmy.world -2 points 4 months ago

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.

[-] WhiteOakBayou@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Lots of people stepping out of the shower to downvote

[-] Nepenthe@kbin.social 1 points 4 months ago

It probably takes me that long just to wash and rinse my hair.

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