Except… these brands market themselves as environmentally friendly/fair trade. But in reality they’re luxury brands. Which isn’t compatible with that goal because luxury brands are niche products not products that actually cause real change. Something that actually causes change needs to be sufficiently widely adopted.

Thing is… I actually want things to improve. It matters to me that environmentally friendly products that dont exploit the people that make the materials used in them actually get popular enough to start forcing the industry to change. And while the law is a useful tool to acheive that change, it cant do it on its own. Peoples’ buying habits need to be taken into account. You cant just… brute force everything.