Exposing the Fashion Industry's Dark Side (with Maxine Bedat)

Change Agents with Andy Stumpf

IRONCLAD

Society & Culture

4.9 • 648 Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Maxine Bedat is the director of the New Standard Institute, “a think and do tank using data and the power of citizens to turn the fashion industry into a force for good.” She is also the author of the book Unraveled: The Life and Death of a Garment Today on Change Agents, an IRONCLAD original, Maxine and Andy Stumpf discuss the humanitarian, ethical, and environmental issues with the fashion industry -- and how things can change. Subscribe to the podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/change-agents-with-andy-stumpf/id1677415740 Sponsors: HVMN – You can find Ketone-IQ at https://hvmn.com/ and use promo code ANDY at checkout to save 20% Shop IRONCLAD Apparel: https://shop.thisisironclad.com/ Change Agents is an IRONCLAD original. Visit https://www.thisisironclad.com to learn more. Be sure to subscribe to @thisisironclad on YouTube and major social platforms. Follow us on Social - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thisisironclad Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/ThisIsIRONCLAD Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You know, this is another thing that very few people know, but the fashion industry is responsible
0:05.4	from anywhere between 4 and 8% of global greenhouse gas emissions.
0:11.5	That's more than France, Germany, and the United Kingdom combined.
0:16.8	It's a hugely polluting industry, and it's really because of these textile mills like
0:24.0	the amount of energy required to take a raw fiber like cotton or polyester and spin it weave it
0:32.7	diet finish it just takes an immense amount of, and we're doing it in places like China
0:38.8	that still have a coal-based energy grid, and then we're producing in such great volumes
0:44.0	that it's amounting to the same emissions as almost the United States.
0:51.6	How can I help? How can I be useful in ending needless suffering?
0:56.0	Do not be afraid of work that has no end.
0:59.0	We have to organize a social movement.
1:04.0	We have an opportunity to lead by example versus just talking, hot air.
1:12.5	I think the more people in this fight, the more we grow, eventually it could change.
1:17.2	The people are the ones that can make the change.
1:24.2	How much time do you spend thinking about your clothes?
1:27.7	Do you ever think about where they come from?
1:30.6	Do you ever think about the people that make them, whether or not they're earning a living wage or the environmental impact of the things that we wear around every day?
1:37.8	Would it surprise you that 20% of global wastewater comes from textile dye?
1:41.7	How about the fact that 93% of brands surveyed by the fashion
1:45.9	checker aren't paying garment workers a living wage? Another stat from the BBC, 15 million.
1:52.5	I'm going to say that one more time. Fifteen million used clothes arrive in Ghana every week from
1:57.7	Europe, America and China, and fast fashion items make up more and more of what is sent.
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