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August 23, 2020 at 07:10PM
The Citarum River in Indonesia is the world’s most polluted river. One of the main polluters is the fashion industry: 500 textile factories throw their wastewater directly into the river. See DW TV, 1 hr. Doc Film that resulted in the National Government committing to a clean Citarum River by 2025! Powerful.
The fact that this situation exists in 2020, in contrast to 1970, is a disturbing indictment of globalization. Scaling industry that pollutes with impunity and apparent ignorance, without organizational reflective and self-governing capacity or Nationally enlightened standards and regulatory capacity, is truly a failing of our humanity.
The publication of Natural Capitalism and the work of Bill McDonough and others working in the emerging arena of regenerative ecological economics, industry, and regionalism demonstrates that economic prosperity and humanity can co-exist and be self-reinforcing. It is this shift that is required in the few short years we have left before the accelerating unsustainability trends overwhelm humanity's capacity for an effective response.
Donella Meadows had a good answer to the question of whether it is already too late. She said, no one knows, but if one does not try, the certainty of it being too late is clear!
The one-hour documentary: (https://www.dw.com/en/can-the-citarum-still-be-saved-the-worlds-most-polluted-river/av-54661915)
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