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Nature has introduced great variety into the landscape, but man has displayed a passion for simplifying it. Thus he undoes the built-in checks and balances by which nature holds the species within bounds.
Rachel Carson, Silent Spring
Such frightful substances would arrive centuries later, when fashion ushered in a new age of powerful fossil-fuel chemistry.
Alden Wicker • To Dye For: How Toxic Fashion Is Making Us Sick--and How We Can Fight Back
fashion and chemistry are co-existent
It can. Fossil-fuel chemistry is not only used in fashion, but as we’ve seen, it owes its existence to fashion. Chemistry is fashion. Fashion is chemistry. But their shared heritage has been locked away like a shameful family secret.
Alden Wicker • To Dye For: How Toxic Fashion Is Making Us Sick--and How We Can Fight Back
To Dye For: How Toxic Fashion Is Making Us Sick--and How We Can Fight Back
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Why should we tolerate a diet of weak poisons, a home in insipid surroundings, a circle of acquaintances who are not quite our enemies, the noise of motors with just enough relief to prevent insanity? Who would want to live in a world which is just not quite fatal?
Rachel Carson, Silent Spring
Performance attributes such as water repellency, stain repellency, wrinkle resistance, and easy-care fabrics are almost always achieved through toxic chemicals such as PFAS and coatings that can break down and come off the clothing into your house dust or onto your skin.
Alden Wicker • To Dye For: How Toxic Fashion Is Making Us Sick--and How We Can Fight Back
What’s worse is that they are an invisible menace, infiltrating our air, water, homes, and bodies. In fact, there’s now a term for the invisible world of synthetic chemistry that lives inside us: the human toxome.
Alden Wicker • To Dye For: How Toxic Fashion Is Making Us Sick--and How We Can Fight Back
Our cellulose-based chemistry system is combating the invisible menace of “the human toxome,'“ which is perpetuated by synthetics and chemical systems that were never intended to interact with life.