I have a bee in my bonnet. I'll try to keep my shirt on, but this story is probably best considered in your birthday suit, which is quite possible, as we buy a lot of clothes, but we don't actually wear most of them for long. The era of fast fashion enables you to purchase a new wardrobe at the drop of a hat on a shoestring budget. What's also fast is the pace at which those clothes end up in a vast global network that sends your unwanted wears from local thrift shops to international trash heaps that are bursting at the seams. For the recipient regions, the trend is a sharp kick below the belt as the speed of fast fashion has caught the world's waste management system with its pants down. I'd tell you to put yourself in their shoes, but their feet are already in the shoes you discarded. I know this news might make some feel a bit guilty, but you reap what you sew, and if the shoe fits... So put on your big boy/girl pants and read this book excerpt in GQ, where Oliver Franklin-Wallis put his thinking cap on and rolled up his sleeves to follow the thread of What Really Happens to the Clothes You Donate. "Consider: only between 10 and 30 percent of second-hand donations to charity shops are actually resold in store. The rest disappears into a machine you don’t see: a vast sorting apparatus in which donated goods are graded and then resold on to commercial partners, often for export to the Global South. The problem is that, with the onslaught of fast fashion, these donations are too often now another means of trash disposal—and the system can’t cope. Consider: around 62 million tons of clothing is manufactured worldwide every year, amounting to somewhere between 80 and 150 billion garments to clothe 8 billion people." (Some of us, it must be noted, have been wearing the same jeans, t-shirts, and windbreakers for decades and are not implicated in this story. Maybe it's better to be a fashion victim than a fashion victimizer. Folks who live a fashion backwards life should consider themselves off the hook. If the glove doesn't fit, you must acquit.) 2Dome Doom"A concentrated sphere of heat, known colloquially as a 'heat dome,' has powered the excessively high temperatures. Over the coming week, the heat dome will reach from coast to coast, inching northward and parking smack dab in the middle of the country. Over the next 8 to 14 days, the National Weather Service is calling for above-normal temperatures nearly everywhere in the continental U.S." It's been hot as hell in much of the world, and the heat wave stretching across the American south isn't going anywhere for a while. WaPo (Gift Article): Inside the most extreme heat wave the Southern U.S. has faced. "The exceptional heat will be remembered for its intensity and duration." Michael Scott might respond to with, "That's what she said." But the sad truth is that this heat wave won't be remembered for long since this is the new normal. 3Cold BloodBefore you hit the air conditioned theater this weekend, WaPo (Gift Article) looks back at the real Oppenheimer story: The atomic bombings left Oppenheimer shattered: ‘I have blood on my hands.' "While Truman assured Oppenheimer he should not carry the burden of the bombs — 'I told him the blood was on my hands, to let me worry about that' — the president was privately infuriated by what he described to aides as a 'crybaby scientist' and the regret he had over the decimation." (This makes me nostalgic for days when politicians only criticized the emotions of scientists, not their science.) 4Weekend WhatsWhat to Doc: I was lucky to see the Sundance premiere (along with the man himself) of Stephen Curry: Underrated, now playing on AppleTV. It's hard to imagine Steph ever being underrated, but he was at almost every point of his college and early NBA career. Curry is one of the doc's producers, so there's nothing hard hitting about it. But it's a really fun, inspirational ride. 5Extra, ExtraSlave Striver: "Going forward, middle-schoolers will explore 'how slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit' as one part of the syllabus." The war on reality in education in Florida is crazier than you think. The Cut: Florida Wants to Teach Kids That Slavery Was Good. And Anne Applebaum in The Atlantic on the religious fanaticism taking over the volunteer state: Is Tennessee a Democracy? 6Feel Good Friday"Shaddock found comfort in meditation, swimming in the ocean and writing in a journal. Keeping Bella fed and content gave him added purpose. The two subsisted on raw fish and rainwater." Australian castaway recounts comfort he felt adrift at sea, thanks to meditation, swimming and dog. (If I was lost at sea with my beagles, it would probably take rescuers about five minutes to hear all three of us howling.) Get a copy of my 📕, Please Scream Inside Your Heart, or grab a 👕 in the Store.
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