In addition, seven common pesticides in cotton or suspects or carcinogens.
He developed the modern industry cotton, insects and weeds have become increasingly resistant to pesticides, which means that most of these highly toxic chemicals must be used.
As regards the water at least 925 gallons (about 3500 litres) are needed to produce one pound of cotton; and 60% of water used for irrigation of cotton is lost to evaporation and poor .El Aral Sea in Russia, which was one of the biggest irrigation practices of freshwater lakes in the world virtually dried up due to water diverted for irrigation of cotton.
Somewhere in the region of 79 million acres of land is currently used for cotton production in the world; according to Wikipedia, cotton covers 2.5% of cultivated land in the world but used 16% of insecticides in the world, more than any other single main crop.
The environment paid a huge price for our demand for cotton.
