Around the world, 80 billion new pieces of clothing are sold every year, 400% more than just 40 years ago.

全球每年賣出 800 億件新衣服，比 40 年前多了百分之四百。

Americans alone are buying five times more garments than in 1980.

光是美國人，比起在 1980 年代，就多買了五倍的服飾。

Now, a $1.3 trillion mega industry, fashion employs more than 300 million people worldwide.

如今時尚業是價值 1.3 兆美金的龐大產業，在世界各地雇用了超過 3 億人。

Where other industries have come apart at the seams, clothing production has doubled in the last 15 years.

其他產業幾乎分崩離析的同時，服裝製造卻在過去 15 年間規模增加一倍。

But it's a fashion statement with a steep environmental price tag.

但這樣的時尚宣言卻是以令人咋舌的環保代價換取的。

Making one kilogram of fabric produces 23 kilograms of greenhouse gasses.

生產一公斤的衣料會製造出 23 公斤的溫室氣體。

Textile production generates more carbon dioxide than all international flights and maritime shipping combined.

衣料生產所製造出的二氧化碳比所有國際航班、海上航運的總和還要多。

Yet half of all clothes are thrown away within one year, many having never been worn.

但其中有一半的衣服在一年內就會被丟掉，許多甚至完全沒穿過。

Fashion is now considered the second most polluting industry in the world after oil.

現在時尚業被視為全球製造最多污染的產業，僅次於石油。

And with increasing middle classes in the developing world keen to make their own fashion statement, this will get worse.

而當發展中世界裡新興的中產階級急著想打造個人時尚，汙染情形將會更嚴重。

If 80% of emerging markets reach western levels of clothes shopping, carbon dioxide emissions could increase by nearly 80% per person.

倘若有八成的新興市場購買衣服的規模變得與西方相等，每個人的二氧化碳排放量可能會上升八成。

By 2050 total clothing sales could reach 175 million tons, turning the planet into the biggest fashion victim of them all.

到了 2050 年，服裝總和銷售量可能會達到 1.75 億噸，使得地球淪為頭號時尚受害者。