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Photo by @edkashi/@viiphoto: Employees work together to move bags of cotton at the African Textiles Manufacturers factory in Kano, Nigeria on April 8, 2013. This factory employed over 3000 people ten years ago and now employs only one third that amount. Due to cheap Chinese imports, the company cannot keep up with the imitations that are being imported into Nigeria. The impacts on the textile industry extend around the globe for other reasons such as climate change. According to a 2012 article on The Guardian, “Climate change is making the production of key commodities more uncertain and variable. When it comes to cotton, it's having a dramatic impact on water quality and availability. It takes about 20,000 litres of water to make a single T-shirt and a pair of jeans, putting significant pressure on local rivers and freshwater basins.” With global warming reducing the amount of available fresh water, climate change is a pressing issue. The article continues and illuminates some simple ways even the consumers of these products can #actonclimate. “Some 70% of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions associated with cotton clothing are at the consumer end, and not from growing cotton, transporting it or manufacturing clothing. One way to dramatically reduce GHG emissions is to use cold-water laundry detergent… it can help to reduce energy from washing clothes by as much as 90%.” @everydayclimatechange #climatechange #cotton #actonclimatechange #sustainability #textiles #greenhousegases

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