For many years, I had the necessary permits to repurpose roadkilled birds (and other dead birds that I didn’t kill) as museum specimens. I value making museum specimens out of them much more than making little objects (perhaps art) for sale. But is there really a moral difference?
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Not needing winter warm.
But for years I chose cotton. Natural fibre. Good?
Then I read about irrigation. Aral Sea drying up. Australia diverting rivers to irrigate Big Cotton.
And cotton is apparently heavily infested with insects so it was first choice for GM.
Bamboo? Sound good and sustainable. But like viscose it is greenwashed plastic, not starting from fossil fuel.
Leaves me with avoiding ‘fleece’ for the microplastic straight out to the Atlantic Ocean when I wash it - unless I use the grey water in my garden. Then the Southeaster puts it in the air I breathe.
Wool isnt bad. Wxpensive, but isnt bad.
Of course the biggest issue is that some farms practice mulesing to orevent fly strike. Which
… is not great.
Its so hard to be an ethical consumer in this world
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Hemp could be another solution. Not easy to find for many products you’d like to buy.
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You can be all after saving Aral, but you should see a reaction of local people when you mention stopping the cotton production, cotton gives them all job, money, and it’s really a major part of their life, even those who don’t work there would fight for saving cotton fields.
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Similar to the way King Coal is defending coal mining here.
Can’t wear wool - it itches.
But hemp and linen are possible.
Agreed, with both you and @kevintoo.
(Also, I’m a weirdo who actually breaks out in contact dermatitis from certain types of polyester or nylon fibers. Cotton may have its own detrimental impact on the environment, but I can wear it without massive applications of antihistamine.)
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I don’t have anything against taxidermists. I just gave my reaction to the question about using insect parts to create artwork.
Or… if we ever ‘unravel’ all their secrets, there’s always spider’s silk. Super strong, environmentally safe, and can be tuned to diverse, multiple properties with different ‘mixes’. There are startups working on creating bacterial factories that can synthesize the stuff.
(It would probably be more practical than the manual method.
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