I don't think it's inherently capitalist problem. My country got significantly more environmentally friendly since it switched from communism to capitalism in

I don't think it's inherently capitalist problem. My country got significantly more environmentally friendly since it switched from communism to capitalism in 1989. For one thing we decreased energy use by 1/3rd while increasing production, standards of living and exports significantly. The main thing that caused this was freeing energy prices (which increased them significantly in less than a decade - which made everybody invest in obvious energy-saving measures like house insulation). To illustrate: in last 30 years my parents moved from burning 4 ton of coal per winter to less than 2 (after insulating the house) to nothing (because they installed heat pump and solar panels last year). Another thins is open information about all sorts of indicators - publicly accessible measurements of air quality were introduced (before there was simply no data and officials lied about the threats while people living near industrial facilities died prematurely). A lot of problems people attribute to ideologies and systems of government are actually technical and could be solved independently of these things, simply by improving procedures, tinkering with incentives and improving education. EU has been a huge positive influence in all of these.