Climate anxiety has finally entered the sacred realm of Pamela Druckerman’s wardrobe
y son came home from primary school recently and asked why we were still using plastic bags. He’d just been learning about climate change. Like most people, I’d long been recycling and trying to avoid plastic. But being warned about it by my ten-year-old somehow did what photos of giant islands of rubbish had not: it galvanised me into further action.
Perhaps most overwhelming for me was that the environmental emergency had entered the sacred realm of my wardrobe. I need to learn to live with the mountain of clothes I already own, and somehow suppress my great indulgence, pleasure and hobby: shopping. I’m not proud of it, but shopping is still part of my identity. I’d come to think of adulthood as a series of increasingly expensive outfits. It’s not just the rush of getting new stuff, it’s also the implicit optimism. After I had cancer, I knew I’d recovered when I started trying on clothes again. Doing so suggested that there’d be a future in which I could wear them.
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