is a perfect example. As Nat points out, these indigenous solutions are climate resilient, promote biodiversity, and help their local ecosystem thrive.370 million indigenous peoples make up less than five percent of the total human population
, they manage 25 percent of the world's land surface and support about 80 percent of the Earth’s biodiversity. “What I want to do is advocate for indigenous people,” says Nat. “When you ask somebody, the regular person on the street, ‘What do you think about ingenious peoples?’ They might be surprised they still even exist because we've faced massive eraser, not just from genocide, an eraser on a physical level by being murdered—but a cultural eraser. We're not represented.
“The one thing we do every day is eat and put on clothes,” she says. “A lot of us tick off boxes like, ‘Okay, I'm trying to be conscious about what I eat.’ Not a lot of us are realizing that when we buy certain clothes we are supporting slave labor, destruction of the environment, degrading our waterways, and perpetuating cycles of poverty. A lot of us are not awake to that.
Not buying any new clothes for 365 days shouldn’t be hard for someone who lives in the warm Los Angeles, CA climate and has an extraordinary career like Nat, but that’s not all she’s doing as part of her no new clothes pledge. She’s writing a monthly column for“I held a class called Fashion Awakening 101, where I broke down the things I have learned that made me not want to participate in the fashion system,” Nat shares.
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