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The secret lives of things you own

TED Climate

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Introduction

Every year we buy two billion tea shirts, gloomily, making it one of the most common garments in the world. Cotton plants equire a huge amount of water, like a crazy amount of water,. Two thousand, 700 leters are needed to produce the average tea. Shirp. That's enough to fill more than 30 bath tubs. Meanwhile, cotton uses more insecticides and pesticides than any other crop in the world; these blutons can be carsonigenic., harm the health of field workers and damage surrounding ego systems. After manufacture, all those tea shirts travel by ship, train and truck to be sold in high income tries. Some countries produce their own clothing domestically

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