Re: "there is no ethical consumption under capitalism", specific examples are warranted.

On the technocratic side it'd be good to see more discussion of things like the EU's "Circular Economy Action Plan" https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/qanda_20_419

I'm observing a huge political interest in patterns of consumption, and a desire to do better. In Australia regulating supply, product and packaging in the two big supermarket monopolies would be a great initiative—treating "environment" on the same level as "safety" for example.

I don't have any great faith in the capacity of captured national social democracies to deliver regulation, or Pigouvian taxes on the global supply chains of the goods we consume, but might be worth at least talking about it? Which would start a huge shit fight of course.

Imagine this (which already exists) but with strict, assessed regulation of plastic content and packaging, supply chain emissions, etc.

Hope someone is looking at this because Marxists in my timeline critiquing "there is no ethical consumption under capitalism" and suggesting a voluntary internationalist working class relinquishment of "standard of living" are going to get a single iota of results.

We need an incremental synthesis of environmental thinking into all production and logistics, and a redefinition of "standard of living" to include "downshifting" but also keeping many of the goods we have redesigned without manufactured obsolescence, gratuitous waste, etc.

But if you start by saying "don't buy any more smartphones because in industrial China there's a literal poison lake of cesium by-products resulting from the polishing of gorilla glass" you are going to achieve fuck all, even though it's true.

*cerium (don't come at me with science questions, I am ignorant)