Clothing companies should sell a greater number of wool sweaters

My opponent stated that synthetics can be as warm in garments as wool. They stated that the warmth of a garment lies mostly in the structure of the garment than the fiber it is made out of. However, wool can certainly be warmer than synthetic fibers. I have a sweater which I am never cold in when I wear it inside, and it is made of wool. Fiber which comes from an animal which has spent its life in a very cold climate, e. g. Icelandic sheep would be much warmer than fiber which is derived from oils you would never eat. My opponent mentioned that the wool sweater/jumper they wear is not as warm as their ski jacket which is made from polyester, but a coat is a lot thicker than a sweater, and if the material used to make that ski coat were used to make a jumper of the same design, it would very likely not be nearly as warm as the jumper made of wool. My ski coat is also warmer than my sweater, but the synthetic fabric is stuffed with goose down, and I if there were none it would probably be freezing. I highly doubt the ski coat my opponent was talking about was made of only a layer of synthetic fabric. Therefore, wool can certainly be warmer than synthetics, and it could very well decrease climate change due to fewer resources being used to heat houses. My opponent was correct in stating that I had not provided evidence for wool sweaters being of higher quality and wear ability than clothes made of synthetic fibers in the previous round, however, I will certainly do so in this round. By higher quality, and wear ability, I meant items that last long, which can be worn for a long time and in multiple conditions before they are considered unable to be worn. I have sweaters I wear outside that do not tear or get very mussed when they come in contact with bushes. When I wore my ski coat out outside it tore right away when it came in contact with a thorny bush. I had a coat of wool I wore for years that would not tear if I walked by a rose bush. In this way wool garments, including sweaters/jumpers are much less subject to wear than garments made of synthetic fibers. My opponent also mentioned that it takes far more energy and produces more CO2 emissions to manufacture wool than synthetic fibers. However, if people were to wear sweaters out of wool, which has more wear ability than synthetic fibers, then there would be less need to produce so many garments, because the garments produced would last longer. Also, garments made out of synthetics mostly tend to get dirty very easily, where wool clothes, when you look closely at them, have small fibers sticking out of the cloth. When some liquid gets on the cloth, the fibers lift them off the rest of the cloth, until enough liquid is poured on that the cloth soaks in some of it. In this way, clothes My dog's hair gets wet when he swims, however, when you lift his hair, about and inch underneath is dry. If clothes were made out of fiber like this, they would be somewhat less prone to getting dirty, which means that less washing would be required,=less resources needed=fewer resources produced=less human impact. My opponent said that sheep do not walk around everywhere, waiting to be shorn, in fact, there is a whole entire process to getting wool off their backs. First of all, certainly sheep do not walk around everywhere, waiting to be shorn, however the process of raising them and feeding them, etc. does not require half the resources than, for example, polyester requires, 1) getting to the place where the petroleum gas is located, often in Saudi Arabia and the Middle East, 2) extracting the alcohol and constituent acids, 3) the travel associated with both getting to the place where the materials for polyester can be extracted and then back to the manufacturer. The process of raising sheep requires some, although much less traveling. Although sheep certainly do not walk around everywhere waiting to be shorn, one sheep can be shorn every year, even twice, unlike with a polyester material source, it runs out, no fabric. Also, wool does not only come from sheep, it can be gotten from many other animals. Mohair can be gotten from any goat, including a mountain goat. Besides, the hair on sheep is practically useless for anything but fiber. Petroleum, which is used for polyester, has many other uses, such as for gasoline and paving roads. (1) When it is used for polyester it cannot be also used for those things. This makes use of wool much more practical. My opponent also said that manufacturing of sheep wool requires highly industrial technology. Humans have been using sheep for wool for approximately the past 500 years. One of the oldest samples of wool in Iceland was found in the 1500's in Iceland. (2) Does my opponent mean to say that that 500 years ago people used highly industrial technology to raise sheep and gather their wool? People 500 years ago, first of all, did not have the global warming problem that we have now. Second of all, they certainly did not have the synthetic fibers that we have today. The link to the source my opponent provided for natural fibers such as wool being produced more than synthetics was broken. I had to play around with the link to get it open. I request that my opponent does not put in their debate any broken links to sources they have used. The source summarizes the fiber most often used for fabric, where this debate is about the type of fiber used in sweaters. It also stated that about 75 percent of clothes are made from COTTON and wool. Cotton, although a natural fiber, is not a wool. It comes from a plant, not come the hair of an animal. This debate is about whether companies should sell a greater number of WOOL sweaters, not another fiber. If the types of fabric covered in the chart cover sweaters in part, the sweaters may very well come from stores which I have never heard of, there are very likely fewer of those sweaters than those from stores I have heard of. My opponent also mentioned that in the title of this debate I stated that it was the company's obligation to provide clothing of a certain fiber. By stating that clothing companies "should" do something, I merely meant that it would be a good idea due to its potential benefits. Increasing the number of wool sweaters sold will I think be a good idea because:It would decease emissions in part due to the warmth of wool,Wool has a higher wear ability and water tolerance than synthetics,Efficiency in the production of wool, considering that sheep and some other animal hair has few other uses, as opposed to materials used to make synthetics. Sources(1). http://www.petroleum.co.uk...(2)JoL9;nsdoL9;ttir, VeL9;diL9;s. Knitting with Icelandic Wool. New York, NY: St. Martin's Griffin, 2013. Print.