Opinion only: I might go a step further and argue that, as a whole, "green capitalism" is primarily successful at guilt reduction, not sustainability. The math

Opinion only: I might go a step further and argue that, as a whole, "green capitalism" is primarily successful at guilt reduction, not sustainability. The math behind most of these efforts, climatically or socially, just doesn't work out. Consumers demand cheap shit, which almost always means automation + exploitation. The overwhelming majority of these efforts don't really amount to meaningful changes: they've been around for decades and the climate isn't getting any better, the wealth gaps (between and within countries) are usually getting worse, etc. You might be able to subsidize some local efforts here and there, like a small hand-farmed CSA who pay all their willing employees a living wage and sells produce at a drastic markup. That might have better labor practices (though farming is no easy task; it's back-breaking work), but there's no guarantee of that either. Even then there's often exploitation (of idealistic WOOFers, for example). And there is often a lot of CO2 from food spoilage of fresh foods, which can sometimes be worse than refrigeration of frozen foods. There's just no guarantee of anything, really, unless you do a really deep dive into whatever effort you're interested in. Counterproductively, I think many of these efforts and labels actually hurt the movements by providing consumers too easy of a way out. "Oh, I'll just buy organic/fair trade/whatever" and then they stop thinking about the problem altogether, believing that they've done their part and that the problem is solved, when in reality almost nothing has changed, systematically. It reduces our cognitive dissonance around market-driven capitalism vs sustainability and labor practices, but improves almost nothing in the real world. It's all a bit depressing, and I don't think we'll find anything actually-sustainable under current models of capitalism. The whole point of our system is to concentrate profits in the hands of a few at the expense of the many -- whether the "many" is people, animals, places, whatever. Want actual sustainability? We need much, much bigger socioeconomic changes.