I think I’m just done with the clothing industry as a whole tbh. I get that we need innovation. I get that we need a drive for change from these big players. I just wish it was less impactful. Personally I’ll be happy now to buy secondhand or from small batch or pre-order until I return to the earth myself. So much process, water pollution and consumption, carbon emissions…
Don’t get me started on the explosion of running caps….they can get to fook
Beacause you asked, I love the Luke Una radio show - thank you, that's going to be a longterm follow - and Mike Lay's delightfully guileless bike trips. The subjective commentary on Patagonia from Mr Vanlife mildly annoyed me (the revealation about the US military wasn't really a surprise but it stung a bit) but mostly becuase it seemed deliberatley pejorative. As Kyle Frost put it in the piece Alex shared, it's frustrating how much Oxygen Patagonia suck up when others are doing good and better work. But a grand ten things as usual, thank you.
Good take on _that_ Patagonia piece. I had similar thoughts. Have you seen this response? Embraces the nuance a bit more, I think: https://read.hereandthere.club/p/why-im-not-writing-off-patagonia
I mean I get it, having you biases confirmed is cathartic and the foundation upon which the entire t’internet is constructed, right?
Guilty 🙋♀️
Ha I mean we’re all guilty
I think I’m just done with the clothing industry as a whole tbh. I get that we need innovation. I get that we need a drive for change from these big players. I just wish it was less impactful. Personally I’ll be happy now to buy secondhand or from small batch or pre-order until I return to the earth myself. So much process, water pollution and consumption, carbon emissions…
Don’t get me started on the explosion of running caps….they can get to fook
Thanks for sharing that response Alex. I think I'm mostly with Kyle's "imperfect efforts still matter".
Beacause you asked, I love the Luke Una radio show - thank you, that's going to be a longterm follow - and Mike Lay's delightfully guileless bike trips. The subjective commentary on Patagonia from Mr Vanlife mildly annoyed me (the revealation about the US military wasn't really a surprise but it stung a bit) but mostly becuase it seemed deliberatley pejorative. As Kyle Frost put it in the piece Alex shared, it's frustrating how much Oxygen Patagonia suck up when others are doing good and better work. But a grand ten things as usual, thank you.