The problem is not capitalism, it's lack of ethics. Since our educational process (which used to include religious teachings promoting ethics for most people)

The problem is not capitalism, it's lack of ethics. Since our educational process (which used to include religious teachings promoting ethics for most people) no longer instills an ethical framework, anything goes. Transition from capitalism to some other economic system will do nothing to help, since unethical people will still maximize their experience at the expense of everything else. Witness the communist USSR - it was the worst offender in history as far as the environment goes. China, while arguably more capitalistic in recent years, is also a huge environmental offender. Until humanity in general, and the US in particular, returns to a concerted effort to improve ethically, we remain in deep trouble. That process of ethical improvement had gone on for hundreds of years, but seems to have regressed since around 1950.