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Answer P 14

The boll weevil. Boll Weevil, a small, greyish-brown snout beetle.

It feeds on the bolls (unopened seed pods) of the cotton plant

and on cotton buds. It caused so much damage in cotton raising

states of The USA that the south has to diversify its crops.

The boll weevil is combated by dusting fields from the air with

insecticides.

Source: http://textiles.indianetzone.com/1/cotton.htm,

http://animals.howstuffworks.com/insects/boll-weevil-info.htm

Answer P 13

In the late 1980s by the Texas Department of Agriculture.

Source: Myers, Dorothy and Stolton, Sue (1999) Organic cotton:

from field to final product, p. 6

Answer P 16

Crude oil.

Source: http://www.crudeawakening.org/AboutPeakOil.htm

Answer P 15

At least 8000 chemicals are used to turn raw materials into

clothes. Pesticides are used in production, bleaching, dyeing sizing

and finishing of textiles. These chemicals include heavy metal

dyes, chlorine bleaches, formaldehyde (to prevent creasing) and

paraffin (to ease weaving).

Sources: http://www.bbc.co.uk/thread/features/how-dirty/

Answer P 18

The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) estimates

about 3% of exposed agricultural workers suffer from

an episode of acute pesticide poisoning annually—with a

population of about 1.3 billion agricultural workers worldwide,

that means that as many as thirty-nine million people may suffer

from acute poisonings each year.

Source: http://magazine.panna.org/spring2006/

inDepthGlobalPoisoning.html

Answer P 17

Nylon manufacture uses large amounts of oil, produces nitrous

oxide, a greenhouse gas that’s 310 times more potent than CO 2 ,

and the fabric isn’t biodegradable.

Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/thread/features/how-dirty/

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