PART 3—Going Global in the Late Twentieth and Early Twenty-First Century By the time the cotton mills in North Carolina were shut down, much of the country’s textile work had already moved overseas. But today, the United States is still the world’s second largest producer and exporter of raw cotton. Producing roughly 4,000 thousand metric … Continue reading The Human and Climate Costs of Our Perpetually New Clothes- Part 3 (of 4)