How Your Fast Fashion is Slowly Killing the Earth
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How Your Fast Fashion is Slowly Killing the Earth

Our clothes now hardly last us for a year, and yet each piece of machine-made denim sold takes about a hundred litres of water to make. Once the denim loses its grip, it finds a way into our landfills. And that polyester in your jacket takes about 200 years to decompose.
I Like My Phone More Than I Like You
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I Like My Phone More Than I Like You

I’ve been berated for being glued to my phone instead of having “real conversations”. But I don’t fancy the phone as a coping mechanism when faced with awkward silences.
A Modern-Day Manual to Prove You Are a Texting Titan
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A Modern-Day Manual to Prove You Are a Texting Titan

We are all participants in the reality game show “Who is the Busiest Of Them All Anyway?”, but to master it requires talent. The more the number of unread chats, the greater the chances of you excelling. Remember, you are a real winner, if you are good at ghosting.
Activists Can’t Stop Climate Change, Only a Good Business Model Can
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Activists Can’t Stop Climate Change, Only a Good Business Model Can

With raging bushfires, melting glaciers, and toxic air pollution, our immediate future is looking a lot less like Rivendell and a lot more like Mad Max Fury Road. But along with activists like Greta Thunberg, we need companies to comply. Until someone finds a great way to profit from climate change, it’s unlikely to have the kind of impact we are desperate for.