Do we have enough clothes for the next six generations?
Update: 2024-11-09
Description
A huge quantity of clothing is produced every year around the world. But is so much made that there are already enough tops, trousers, skirts and all the rest to clothe humanity for decades into the future?
That’s a claim that has been percolating around the internet recently, that there are already enough clothes for the next six generations.
Tim Harford and Beth Ashmead Latham explore the source of this claim and, with help from Sabina Lawreniuk from Nottingham University, find that the evidence behind it is far from persuasive.
Presenter: Tim Harford and Bethan Ashmead Latham
Producer: Bethan Ashmead Latham
Series producer: Tom Colls
Production co-ordinator: Katie Morrison
Sound Mix: Annie Gardiner
Editor: Richard Vadon
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