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Climate Change Is Making Fashion’s Supply Chain Problems Worse

From floods in Pakistan to drought in Texas, extreme weather is mixing with political upheaval, economic challenges and trade tensions to threaten cotton supply.
Cotton blossoms and a flooded cotton field in Pakistan.
Flooding in Pakistan has destroyed nearly half of the country's cotton crops (right). (Getty)

The monsoon rain began in June. By the end of summer, huge swathes of Pakistan were fully submerged. More than 1,500 people have died in the devastating floods, and hundreds of thousands of people have been left homeless. Water only began to recede in the worst-affected southern Sindh province this week, officials said.

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