It's so, SO important to share success stories like this. I know an actual JPL engineer who doesn't believe in climate change because, "you never hear about acid rain anymore."
He thinks climate change can be lumped in with acid rain and the ozone layer of "things that were overblown and not really important because no one talks about it anymore."
It didn't even occur to him that we actively fixed the problem. Here's the EPA page on acid rainfall.
From the page:
It's also important to talk about success stories tonfuel hope that we can overcome current and future conservation and environmental issues.
We fixed the hole in the Ozone layer too.
I wish I could take this post, go back in time, and shove it in the face of literally everyone.
All of these problems are fixable
I wanted to share this: WE FIGURED OUT HOW TO BRING BACK DEAD CORAL!!! By using sounds of living coral to attract fish.
Coral can be saved!!! This planet is way more resilient than we give it credit for. And we don't give humans enough flowers for stopping the harm billionaires cause.
We still have scientists making new ways to stop pollutants and reverse damage done by human industry, every day. One of my favorites is "We figured out how to grow naturally pink cotton so we don't have to pollute the earth making as much red dye and industrial dye practices for everything we make in pink cotton."
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They are working on black as well. But I can't think of just how many underwear packs have beige black white and pink briefs for some reason. We could have always grown "nude" cotton, beige cotton, and brown cotton for these things. I don't think the industry does that. But it COULD. And Pink would have had to have been dyed... until now. I imagine so many dyed pink cotton household items in everyday use that could so so easily be replaced by organically grown pink cotton.
Then there are all the toys, baby items, and clothes made from pink cotton. If Disney ALONE switched ALL of their officially licensed pink products from dyed cotton or nylon to CSIRO pink cotton, there would be a huge impact on the amount of dye pollutants from industrial dying proceedures. As a bonus to Disney... It would be very VERY much much muchly very harder to counterfeit their merchandise because you could test the originals for dyes that would not even be PRESENT in licenced official merchandise. Because the only ingredient? Cotton. 100%. Babysafe, soft, versatile cotton.
Here's what the plant looked like in the science experiments btw:
And not for nothin but all of their Star Wars Grogu, Peter Pan Tinkerbell And GREEN products could have ALWAYS been made with Arkansas Green cotton (a natural variety that probably predates white cotton)
The trouble is, in this instance, I'm not sure how much leniency can be given to the color. Natural color cotton's hue and saturation can vary slightly by season depending on weather, soil quality, the date it is picked, and a ton of other factors. Plus it would only come in natural green, not neon green or evil magic green or radioactive hulk green. Just...
But still there's a ton of stuff the marketing team can do within that color constraint, I promise. Especially if they are given leave to embroider it with natural white, beige, or PINK patterns. Or order crops be harvested at different times and use the natural shade differences to machine weave mouse ear patterns into the textile. It would be SO HARD to replicate for counterfeiters.
These three colors are all that would be needed to create a decent grogu baby blanket. Image Credit Su Xin
And if csiro makes a natural black variant? All bets are off, creatively. Black mouse ears on white cotton... with no dye? All the character outlines in black, with soft green, beige, pink, on white cotton, with zero dyes? There's so much they could make with that. Grogu silouette is possible just with white and green cottons. Pop a black outline and a natural beige/brown cotton in the mix and that's probably the only bit of merchandise being brought to a nerd's baby shower, ever... dye free chemical free organic cotton stuff. Moms would flip.
And... there's nothing stopping Disney from creating beloved characters using only this color pallet. Here's a bad paint mockup example-
FoxFiber Colored Cotton textile swatches by Sally Fox. See the swatches and the interview here at the link.
Pink inner ear variant.
And it probably costs the same or less than dyed and chemically treated cotton.
Note: the original disney licensed pin. If CSIRO manages to generate a black for the outlining it will look like I didn't turn off the lineart layer. But yet, a good designer can absolutely use these four colors (Green Brown Pink White + 50/50 mixes of each) to make a ton of incredible Disney designs if Disney wanted to go all organic for a baby line.
2023 Disney Licensed Open Edition (OE) Chibi Grogu Pin from the Star Wars: The Mandalorian Disney pin series.
It would probably be impossible to do Loki without that ancient chinese yellow cotton or csiro black cotton, but so many characters can be done with pink, cream, brick red, brown and green. Mike Wizowsky, a cream-hair tinkerbell variant, Merida from Brave as well as all the bears... trying to think of brick red characters.
This is all just the same foxfibre color pallet but with CSIRO pink. The lighter colors are what you get when you mix the other colors with 25% white, 50% white, or 75% white. But I'd guess that there are plenty of organic non dyed cream cotton options to choose from.
