Hannah Johnson
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Hannah Johnson
“What one generation accepts, the next generation assumes, and the next generation rejects.”
Victor Hugo once remarked, “Everything had already been said, but nobody listened, so it had to be said again” —and his wise words bear repeating.
Tim Leberecht • Bullshit Jobs Will Save Us All
The United Nations Environmental Programme found that not only is the dyeing process for fabrics the second largest source of water pollution, but that the fashion industry alone is producing 20% of the world's wastewater.
Phys.org • Bio-inspired textiles promote sustainable fashion
For instance, in the US, textiles account for 4.5% of the total Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) in landfills (World Trade Statistical Review, 2018).
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Zhou et al. (2020) found that microfibre concentration in an industrial textile facility in China could reach 54,100 microfibres L−1, and even with a removal of 85% in wastewater treatment, release in effluent could still reach 430 billion microfibres per day, with most fibres measuring between 100 and 300 μm.
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the illness was not just my own; the silence around suffering was our society’s pathology.
Meghan O'Rourke • The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness
You cannot muscle your way to health when you are chronically ill. Rather, one way of coming to terms with an amorphous systemic disease is recognizing that you are sick, that the illness will come and go, and that it is not the kind of illness you can conquer.
Meghan O'Rourke • The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness
To become chronically ill is not only to have a disease that you have to manage, but to have a new story about yourself, a story that many people refuse to hear—because it is deeply unsatisfying, full of fits and starts, anger, resentment, chasms of unruly need.