It's a difficult proposition to "restore faith in capitalism" when the core tenet of that ideology, that consumption is good because it is a marker of human ind

It's a difficult proposition to "restore faith in capitalism" when the core tenet of that ideology, that consumption is good because it is a marker of human industriousness, is directly responsible for most if not all of the environmental problems that we now face. Am I saying it is a bad thing to expand human knowledge and endeavor? Of course not, I like the medications and conveniences that it has brought me. But these things are also absolutely not an untainted justification of the processes used by capitalism to arrive at the result. The Soviets made great planes and tanks too, and Jonas Salk had no problem giving away the rights to his Polio vaccine. The Apollo program, perhaps the USA's greatest achievement, was also its greatest experiment in communal effort.