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CULVER CITY, CA - SEPTEMBER 19, 2024 - Commuters wait for a train against dark skies at the MTA Expo Line Bundy Station above S. La Cienega Blvd. in Culver City on September 19, 2024. An unseasonable shift in weather is bringing the chance of showers and thunderstorms across Southern California as temperatures also drop well below average for mid-September. (Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times)

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BAKERSFIELD, CALIF SEPTEMBER 11, 2024 -- An area of the drying Kern River where dead fish are counted and logged in, while environmental groups are engaged in lawsuits that seek to require flows in the river to continue throughout the year in Bakersfield, Calif., Wednesday, Sep. 11, 2024. (Gary Kazanjian / For The Times)

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MARINA DEL REY, CA - SEPTEMBER 19, 2024 - An investigation is underway at the scene where a luxury yacht went down in flames Wednesday night when fireworks aboard the boat exploded in Marina del Rey on Thursday, September 19, 2024. The fully submerged yacht was surrounded by a boom to collect any oil leaking from the vessel. (Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times)

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Burbank, CA - December 03: Amy Jordan sweeps broken glass from her Alone Vintage boutique that was hit by smash and grab burglars early morning on 3200 block of Magnolia Blvd. on Friday, Dec. 3, 2021 in Burbank, CA. (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)

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University of California Police officers face pro-Palestinian protesters outside Dodd Hall in the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) in Los Angeles, June 10, 2024. Several protesters were arrested by UCLA police following a new attempt to set up an encampment on the University campus. (Photo by ETIENNE LAURENT / AFP) (Photo by ETIENNE LAURENT/AFP via Getty Images)

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Palm Desert, CA - September 13: Two Sandhill Cranes named Nile and Daphne Crane, who have arthritis, are among nearly 50 animals evacuated from the Big Bear Zoo due to smoke from the Bridge Fire to The Living Desert Zoo and Gardens in Palm Desert Friday, Sept. 13, 2024. The Big Bear Alpine Zoo, which is being threatened by the Line fire, has evacuated its animals to the Living Desert in Palm Desert. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)

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As the Big Bear Alpine Zoo came under threat from the 39,000-acre Line fire, staffers evacuated most of its animals to sunny Palm Desert.
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Visalia, CA - October 12: Water flows from an underground well to irrigate an orchard on Tuesday, Oct. 12, 2021 in Visalia, CA. (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)

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LOS ANGELES-CA-AUGUST 29, 2024: Students including Wyatt Gaines, right, water the green onion, basil and kale seedlings they planted in the garden at 24th Street Elementary School in Los Angeles on August 29, 2024. (Christina House / Los Angeles Times)

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Los Angeles, CA - August 24: Cimate Change Activist/Essayist Alyssa Jaipersaud poses for a portrait at Exposition Park Rose Garden on Saturday, Aug. 24, 2024 in Los Angeles, CA. (Michael Blackshire / Los Angeles Times)

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Los Angeles, CA - June 05: Reies Flores, a career and technical education agriscience teacher walks through the gardens during an after school "Web Club" at Sotomayor Arts & Sciences Magnet in Los Angeles Wednesday, June 5, 2024. Teachers Reies Flores and Arturo Romo run a campus-based farm and sustainable arts program rooted in climate knowledge. More than a decade in the making, the farm now has cows, sheep, pigs, chickens, ducks, geese, fruit trees, native plants, flowers, vegetables, berries, etc. on a slice of land wedged between railroad tracks and the high school football field. There is farm-to-table cooking, composting, animal husbandry, greenhouse sciences, habitat restoration, and coordination with the cafeteria to reduce food waste across the campus. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)

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LOS ANGELES-CA-AUGUST 29, 2024: Students including Wyatt Gaines, right, water the green onion, basil and kale seedlings they planted in the garden at 24th Street Elementary School in Los Angeles on August 29, 2024. (Christina House / Los Angeles Times)

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Los Angeles, CA - June 05: Student Michelle Chan, 16, holds baby turkeys during an after school "Web Club" at Sotomayor Arts & Sciences Magnet in Los Angeles Wednesday, June 5, 2024. Teachers Reies Flores and Arturo Romo run a campus-based farm and sustainable arts program rooted in climate knowledge. More than a decade in the making, the farm now has cows, sheep, pigs, chickens, ducks, geese, fruit trees, native plants, flowers, vegetables, berries, etc. on a slice of land wedged between railroad tracks and the high school football field. There is farm-to-table cooking, composting, animal husbandry, greenhouse sciences, habitat restoration, and coordination with the cafeteria to reduce food waste across the campus. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)

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Silver Lake, CA - June 04: Fifth grade teacher Brittany Jefferson teaches at her Jefferson Citizens of the World Charter School class on Tuesday, June 4, 2024 in Silver Lake, CA. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)

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LAWNDALE, CA - JUNE 27, 2024 - Eddie Cortes, a horticulture specialist and groundskeeper at ECHS, right, eats a freshly picked cumquat as students Jasmin Rodreiguez, left, and Julian Garcia, both 16, prepare to eat there's at the Environmental Charter High School in Lawndale on June 27, 2024. Cortes was talking about the high vitamin C content in the cumquat grown on campus. The high school is a sustainable campus with fruit trees, which the students have planted, chickens and a hyper-environmental curriculum. (Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times)

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El Segundo, CA - July 18: Science Desk Intern Noah Haggerty holds cards as he plays with other environmental reporters an environmental board game at Los Angeles Times Headquarters on Thursday, July 18, 2024 in El Segundo, CA. (Michael Blackshire / Los Angeles Times)

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Los Angeles, CA - April 21: Edward Humes in the Los Angeles Times Portrait Studio at the Festival of Books in Los Angeles, CA, Sunday, April 21, 2024. (Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times)

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LOS ANGELES-CA-APRIL 19: Senior activist David Rosenstein, with Their Act, seated in a rocking chair attends a climate rally and march with Ann Bartz (2ndL) Jeff Olmstead (C) and Monica Sena at Los Angeles City Hall on Friday April 19, 2024, in Los Angeles, California. (Kevork Djansezian/For The Times)

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A man walks at a second hand clothes dump site at the Kantamanto Market in Accra, Ghana, on November 15, 2023. Kantamanto market is vast, spanning over 20 acres in the heart of Accra's business district, its stalls dominated by used clothing and shoes from the West and China. Its traders import a staggering 15 million garments a week, according to the OR Foundation environmental group. But roughly 40 percent of each bale ends up as waste, they say, dumped in landfills and often washed into the ocean, causing a public health crisis and harming the environment. Ghana became the world's largest importer of used clothing in 2021, according to the Observatory of Economic Complexity (OEC) data site, with garments worth $214 million shipped mostly from China, the United Kingdom and Canada. (Photo by Nipah Dennis / AFP) (Photo by NIPAH DENNIS/AFP via Getty Images)

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Los Angeles, CA - August 28: Stop motion shoot in the office for fast fashion at Los Angeles Times building on Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2024 in Los Angeles, CA. (Michael Blackshire / Los Angeles Times)

The great paradox in retail: Great prices but bad-for-the-planet fast fashion

Women search for used clothes amid tons discarded in the Atacama desert, in Alto Hospicio, Iquique, Chile, on September 26, 2021. EcoFibra, Ecocitex and Sembra are circular economy projects that have textile waste as their raw material. The textile industry in Chile will be included in the law of Extended Responsibility of the Producer (REP), forcing clothes and textiles importers take charge of the waste they generate. (Photo by MARTIN BERNETTI / AFP) (Photo by MARTIN BERNETTI/AFP via Getty Images)

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Nina Gomes recovers a discarded plastic bag from ocean waters, near Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, March 19, 2024. The seven-year-old Brazilian environmental activist has spent years collecting garbage in the waters of Copacabana beach and teaching conservation methods to other children. (AP Photo/Bruna Prado)

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Brentwood, CA, Sunday, April 14, 2024 - Josiah Edwards leads a group Sunrise Movement protesters near VP Harris' Brentwood home calling on her to urge President Biden to declare a climate emergency. (Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times)

Climate warriors fighting some of the ‘greatest crises humanity has ever seen’

TOPSHOT - This image grab taken from AFPTV footage shows two environmental activists from the collective dubbed "Riposte Alimentaire" (Food Retaliation) hurling soup at Leonardo Da Vinci's "Mona Lisa" (La Joconde) painting, at the Louvre museum in Paris, on January 28, 2024. Two protesters on January 28, 2024 hurled soup at the bullet-proof glass protecting Leonardo da Vinci's "Mona Lisa" in Paris, demanding the right to "healthy and sustainable food", an AFP journalist said. It is the latest attack on the masterpiece in the French capital's Louvre museum, after someone threw a custard pie at it in May 2022, but it's thick glass casing ensured it came to no harm. (Photo by David CANTINIAUX / AFPTV / AFP) (Photo by DAVID CANTINIAUX/AFPTV/AFP via Getty Images)

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A worker applies paint to a section of a decommissioned wind turbine blade at the Canvus manufacturing facility in Avon, Ohio, US, on Wednesday, Oct. 25, 2023. To keep turbine blades from piling up in landfills, startups like Canvus are turning them into new products and free marketing for wind power. Photographer: Brian Kaiser/Bloomberg via Getty Images

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Los Angeles, CA - April 29: Avroh, Maya and Maryam, left to right, are three young plaintiffs who have sued the EPA, and poses for a portrait near the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California where a hearing for the lawsuit took place on Monday, April 29, 2024 in Los Angeles, CA. (Dania Maxwell / Los Angeles Times)

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SOUTH PASADENA-CA-JULY 16, 2024: Fabienne Hadorn, co-founder of Arroyo Nature School, an outdoor-based program for preschool-aged kids, left, reads to the children in South Pasadena on July 16, 2024. (Christina House / Los Angeles Times)

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Orange County, California September 10, 2024- A house burns from the Airport Fire in El Cariso Village along Ortega Highway Tuesday. (Wally Skalij/Los Angeles Times)

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SAN CLEMENTE, CA SEPT. 6, 2024 - Hawaiii's John John Florence is carried off the sand after beating Brazilian Italo Ferreira during the Lexus WSL Finals at Lower Trestles in San Clemente on September 6, 2024. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)

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Las Vegas, Nevada, Sunday, September 1, 2024 - USC Trojans defensive end Lorenzo Cowan (37) makes a confetti angel on the field after a 27-20 win over the LSU Tigers in the Modelo Vegas Kickoff Classic at Allegiant Stadium. (Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times)

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PARIS, FRANCE July 28, 2024-USA battles for gold and silver medals in the epee at the 2024 Olympics in Paris, France Sunday(Wally Skalij/Los Angeles Times)

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People watch the speech of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah on a tv screen as they sit in a cafe in the southern suburbs of Beirut, Thursday, Sept. 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

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Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. in the spin room after a presidential debate between Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump and Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris, Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2024, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

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INGLEWOOD, CALIFORNIA - MARCH 14: Rapper Kanye West performs onstage during the "Vultures 1" playback concert during Rolling Loud 2024 the at Hollywood Park Grounds on March 14, 2024 in Inglewood. (Wally Skalij/Los Angeles Times)

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Police officers inspect a car inside of which a hand-held pager exploded, Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

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