Goodbye Cotton, Hello Hemp?
Cotton. You love it, I love it, but Mother Nature freakin' hates it.
About 20 million tons of cotton are produced each and every year, making it far and away the world's most profitable non-food crop. But it's resource intensive in a big way.
It takes about 20,000 liters of water to produce just one kilogram of cotton. To put that in perspective: The average American drinks about 214 liters of water per year, which means you'd have to live into your early 90s to consume as much water as a single T-shirt or pair of jeans. There's also the issue of chemicals. A combined 35 percent of the world's insecticides and pesticides is applied to cotton plants, which grow on less than 3 percent of the crop land on Earth. Runoff can destroy sensitive ecosystems, even if chemicals are "properly applied according to technical instructions."
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