Write a written article analysis using the article given. Please follow the items stipulated as criteria to write the article analysis. Items Stipulated As Criteria in the Article Analysis For the article analysis assignment, the students need to a. identify the issue in a text b. identify the argument/author's point of view in a text C. recognise the types of supporting details in a text as well as any flaws in reasoning if any The Environmental Price We Pay for Fashion How many of us have bought clothes that we don't really want or need, which we only wear once (some never worn) because it was irresistibly cheap and often obtained with just a click of a button? How does a T-shirt originally sold in a U.S. shopping mall to promote an American sports team end up being worn by an African teen? Globalization, consumerism, and recycling all converge to connect these scenes. Globalization has made it possible to produce clothing at increasingly lower prices, prices so low that many consumers consider this clothing to be disposable. Some call it "fast fashion," the clothing equivalent of fast food. II Fast fashion - trend-heavy clothing and cheap prices are kings in the fashion industry today, and the marketing and commercialization of fashion have transformed the market into a US$3 trillion about RM12 trillion global industry. Clothing production has doubled from 2000 to 2014, and 100 billion garments are made every year, which is 13 times the global population. The drop in garment prices over the last 20 years has allowed us to buy 5 times more clothes than our grandparents had. It felt great until we found out what was hiding behind this trend. III In reality, according to the United Nations Council for Renewal Resources, this continuous accumulation of cheap garments is only possible because of a constant reduction of production costs. This, in turn, has serious consequences on our health, our planet, and on garment workers' lives. Despite the widely publicized environmental impacts, the fast fashion industry, which relies on cheap manufacturing, frequent consumption and short-lived garment continues to grow. Evidences accumulated over the last 20 years by the Council reveal fashion as the second largest industrial polluter, second only to oil - polluting freshwater resources and contributing about three per cent of the global production of carbon dioxide emission. IV Few can deny that something needs to be done to put an end to, or at least put the brakes on, this era of fast fashion. And it needs to happen fast. This responsibility however, is too often considered to lie with the consumer, we're told that we should boycott these fast-fashion brands or only buy second hand. It is clear that the fast fashion industry has only grown - with, no obvious attempts to reduce its environmental impact. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has estimated that the fashion industry produces 10% of global CO2 emissions every year, and is estimated to use around 1.5 trillion litres of water every year. It's an industry stuck in a toxic cycle of overproduction and overconsumption, posing a monumental problem to environmental sustainability. Why has the world not held these businesses accountable for their actions? And, in addition, continue to blame consumers for buying into the unsustainable industry they have created? V According to figures from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), it takes 3,781 litres of water to make a pair of jeans, from the production of the cotton to the delivery of the final product to the store. That equates to the emission of around 33.4 kilograms of carbon equivalent. If that is for just one pair of jeans, imagine the environmental cost for everything in our wardrobes. The following statistics, published by the UNEP and the Ellen MacArthur Foundation in 2020, give us an idea: Every year the fashion industry uses 93 billion cubic meters of water - enough to meet the consumption needs of five million people. Around 20 % of wastewater worldwide comes from fabric dyeing and treatment. . Of the total fibre input used for clothing, 87 % is incinerated or disposed of in a landfill. The fashion industry is responsible for 10 % of annual global carbon emissions, more than all international flights and maritime shipping combined. At this pace, the fashion industry's greenhouse gas emissions will surge more than 50 % by 2030. If demographic and lifestyle patterns continue as they are now, global consumption of apparel will rise from 62 million metric tons in 2019 to 102 million tons in 10 years. Every year a half a million tons of plastic microfibers are dumped into the ocean, the equivalent of 50 billion plastic bottles. The danger? Microfibers cannot be extracted from the water and they can spread throughout the food chain. vi In Malaysia alone, the Environmental Protection Agency's estimates show that 11.9 million tons of clothing and footwear were discarded in 2015, of which 8.2 million tons was sent to landfills. Clothing not sold in markets becomes solid waste, clogging rivers, greenways, and parks, and creating the potential for additional environmental health hazards in landfills that lack robust municipal waste systems. VII Ensuring environmental justice at each stage in the global supply chain remains a challenge. Trade policies and regulations will be the most effective solutions in bringing about large- scale change to the fast fashion industry. To combat these practices, industry-wide adoption of internationally recognized certification criteria should be adopted to encourage eco-friendly practices that promote health and safety across the supply chain. However, consumers in high income countries have a role to play in supporting companies and practices that minimize their negative impact on humans and the environment. Consumers must be aware of greenwashing and be critical in assessing which companies actually ensure a high level of standards versus those that make broad, sweeping claims about their social and sustainable practices. The fast fashion model thrives on the idea of more for less, but the age-old adage "less is more" must be adopted by consumers if environmental justice issues in the fashion industry are to be addressed. Consumers in high income countries can do their part to promote global environmental justice by buying high-quality clothing that lasts longer, shopping at second-hand stores, repairing clothing they already own, and purchasing from retailers with transparent supply chains