The world's cotton supply keeps shrinking, hit by drought and heat | Curio

The world's cotton supply keeps shrinking, hit by drought and heat

5 mins | Aug 31, 2022

How a once common resource could become very rare. Extreme weather is wreaking havoc on the world’s largest cotton suppliers. Tarso Veloso Ribeiro, Tatiana Freitas, and Marvin G. Perez examine how this will result in higher prices for all types of goods, from T-shirts to cardboard.

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