Wear this not that – if you care about the planet
Think from KERA
KERA
4.7 • 911 Ratings
🗓️ 28 November 2025
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Did you know that the outfit you are wearing right now is a leading cause of greenhouse gas emissions? Laila Petrie, director general of the charity Future Earth Lab, joins host Krys Boyd to discuss what counts as sustainable in the fashion industry – where greenwashing is rampant – and how fast fashion contributes to climate change. Her article in Scientific American is “How to Be a Smarter Fashion Consumer in a World of Overstated Sustainability.”
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| 0:48.1 | We're aware enough of the pollution from airplanes that some people pay for carbon credits |
| 0:58.2 | to offset the effects of air travel. |
| 1:00.8 | Meanwhile, there's another industry we cannot avoid patronizing that quietly generates |
| 1:06.0 | four times the volume of greenhouse gases as aviation. |
| 1:10.7 | The clothes we wear and donate and discard every year |
| 1:13.9 | are estimated to be the source of a full 10% of climate-changing emissions. From KERA in Dallas, |
| 1:21.3 | this is think. I'm Chris Boyd. Once you hear that fact, it's hard to forget, isn't it? The fashion |
| 1:27.0 | industry has been making promises about sustainability for a while now. |
| 1:31.3 | Some of it is straight up greenwashing, but even seemingly good choices by clothing producers and clothing consumers come with serious trade-offs. |
| 1:40.3 | My guest wants us to understand those pros and cons and think carefully about what it is we actually need. |
| 1:47.1 | Layla Petri is Director General of the Charity Future Earth Lab. |
| 1:51.5 | Her article for Scientific American is headlined How to Be a Smarter Fashion Consumer in a World of Overstated Sustainability. |
| 1:58.5 | Layla, welcome to think. |
| 2:00.7 | Thank you so much. What does it even mean for an |
| 2:04.1 | item of clothing to be sustainable? It's a great question. And honestly, I think there's never really |
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