Science Matters
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen
Publication (Outlet/Website): Trusted Clothes (Unpublished)
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2016
Science matters. Science, or natural philosophy, finds patterns and principles about the world. Those come from the linkages and associations between facts found out by science. Facts are important. Facts bring to light the nature of the natural world.
That is, natural philosophy means science because science discovers the patterns and principles about the natural world. The nature of important global problems come from scientific matters. Of course, we have terrorism, religious extremism, malnutrition, disease, genetic disorders, natural disasters, possible and improbable threats of large asteroid impacts, and others.
Nonetheless, one major problem is climate change or global warming. Global warming stands atop or near the top of major problems. The facts that comprise the trend line of increased parts per million of CO2 in the atmosphere and increased temperature over the recent centuries and decades point to a warming earth.
That means local weather and global warmth are changing because of this. This is human industrial activity among other things. We can mitigate the problem by taking into account our own patterns of consumption, and acting on it. That’s where ethical and sustainable fashion can make a mark. We can waste less.
We can wear biodegradable clothing. Companies can advertise and market towards increased awareness about this. Of course, my own slant is that as far as the science is concerned. The nature of climate change is an engineering problem.
It is too big for individual nations or corporations, or collections of small-to-moderate sized businesses to manage. Each of the small and moderate businesses do their part. However, I know the fact that the major solutions to do with geothermal, solar, wind, nuclear power to ‘combat’ global warming are large-scale engineering projects such as solar power fields or nuclear power plants.
At the end of the day, in the next 25 years, we will need to transition into nuclear and solar power. In the next century, we will likely by the end of it come to a dominance of solar power. Although, sunlight hits the earth at incredible rates. The total global consumption is about 1/10,000th to 1/5,000th of the total radiation or sunlight that hits the earth.
Therefore, our consumption is quite limited with respect to solar constant. The amount of radiation from the Sun impacting the Earth. Much of certain wavelengths of light reflected back into the Earth increase the heat of it. All of these are engineering feats and discoveries with engineering solutions. It might require geo-engineering.
For our part, with respect to clothing and fashion, can bring awareness to the problems, the facts, and to the responsible consumption patterns of those in the most developed countries in human history. That means us.
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