This is a

a series of the world. I'm John Bachelor with Professor Peter Frankapan. The Earth

transformed and untold history. This has to do with natural resources and exploitation. We no longer

cut down huge forests, well not on purpose, but I learned from Peters reporting that one cotton shirt requires 2,700

leaders of fresh water. I'm stunned Peter. Is that a factor in the cotton

industry? I know they've done a lot of work about blood cotton but the

use of water seems reckless is their comment on this generally yeah I

mean that that amount of water to just just under 3,000 liters of fresh water is the equivalent of a person's drinking needs for two and a half years.

A pair of genes, it's about three times that amount.

The global fashion industry produces around

about 10% of all greenhouse gas emissions averaged out and some projections put it that in the

next 20 years that's going to trouble. So I think that I think that my job as an educator and as a professor is to is to give people more knowledge than perhaps they had beforehand and to let them make their own decisions

about how they use that. But I hadn't realized the level of waste, for example, around food. So we waste globally around 930 million tons of

perfectly edible food that if you put that all in 40 ton trucks would stretch

around the world seven times round 231 million trucks.

So there are there are also sorry 23 million trucks

with structure around the world seven times round.

So the wastage that we we go through because the way we make things, the way we discard things, the way we throw things away, looks to me totally unsustainable. And of course we, we individually, we're quite good, I think no one really opens the window of their car and chucks trash out onto the sidewalk no one no one deliberately throws food away from their fridge because they can't be bothered, you know, but the way in which we don't realize what those cycles of intensive farming

or why do we need to, the fruit that we eat to look perfect rather than being

slightly crooked. There's expectations we have around what perfection means.

Means that here in the UK, a report that came out last week

shows that farms in the UK destroy the equivalent of 18 million meals every day.

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