How We REALLY Stop Fast Fashion

Fashion is killing us. Go to https://brilliant.org/occ to get started for free! The first 200 people get 20% off an annual premium subscription.

In this Our Changing Climate climate change video essay, I look at why fast fashion must end. Specifically, I look at the horrors of both worker and planetary exploitation of the fashion industry. The history of fashion parallels that of industrial capitalism. The pollution and worker exploitation of 18th and 19th-century textile mills and factories have just been upgraded and exported to the 21st century. Today with brands like ASOS, Shein, and H&M fashion has turned fast fashion into ultra-fast fashion with extremely quick turn arounds and daily style releases crushing workers in the imperial periphery and pumping emissions into the atmosphere. The current state of the fashion industry is destroying our planet and our very lives.

Help me make more videos like this via Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/OurChangingClimate
Email List: https://ourchangingclimateocc.substack.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/OurClimateNow
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/occvideos/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/occ.climate/
Reddit: www.reddit.com/r/OurChangingClimate/

Check out other Climate YouTubers:

Climate in Colour: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8Wp9EmfpV7EUSrSJAonxzw
zentouro: https://www.youtube.com/user/zentouro
Climate Adam: https://www.youtube.com/user/ClimateAdam
Kurtis Baute: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTRM8LE1g6UXrVZKwgw5oEA
Levi Hildebrand: https://www.youtube.com/user/The100LH
Simon Clark: https://www.youtube.com/user/SimonOxfPhys
Sarah Karver: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRwMkTu8sCwOOD6_7QYrZnw
Climate Town: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuVLG9pThvBABcYCm7pkNkA
Jack Harries: https://www.youtube.com/user/JacksGap
Beckisphere: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCT39HQq5eDKonaUV8ujiBCQ
All About Climate: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs0uXl-w0672ni8pS3UDXsQ
Aime Maggie: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpIcLW8YOY1kL_6J0TzDBGA
Just Have a Think: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRBwLPbXGsI2cJe9W1zfSjQ
Ankur Shah: https://www.youtube.com/c/AnkurShah
Planet Proof: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdtF58iBRQ2C3QPeKKzxwiA
Future Proof: https://www.youtube.com/c/FutureProofTV

Timestamps:
0:00 - Intro
1:00 - A People's History of Fashion
4:24 - From Clothes to Fast Fashion
6:25 - Fast Fashion's Reign
10:41 - The Planetary Cost of Fast Fashion
13:13 - How We End Fast Fashion
15:14 - Future Fashion
17:16 - Brilliant Sponsorship
18:47 - Outro

I use Epidemic Sound for some of my music: http://epidemicsound.com/creator
Certain images and footage courtesy of Getty Images
_______________________
Further Reading and Resources: https://fascinated-soccer-ac0.notion.site/Fashion-Resources-8da76950f80447d7895ed6b81b932f86

#fastfashion #fashion #climatechange