Why is cotton so important?

today cotton is one of the world's great Industries and the world depends mightily on it to help stabilize the economy of [Music] Nations why has this fiber been such a powerful force across the centuries what has made cotton so vastly more important than any other fiber what is this wonderful fiber which nature has given us if you take a Cotton Bowl apart you find it's made up of several clusters called locks each lock contains 7 to 10 seeds from each seed grow thousands of fine strong resilient hairs the cotton fibers