Thanks to capitalism, almost every aspect of society is being viewed through the lens of economics. Profit and loss, surplus and deficit. We’re privatising everything that promises to make a profit for someone, no matter the drawbacks - healthcare, education, water supply. Everything else is being neglected even destroyed. Politics is utterly beholden to economic concerns (read: the will of wealthy donors). Which is one of the reasons why we don’t have a carbon tax. The free market doesn’t work in a system where growth and profit trump everything. We’re literally running government like a business.

We literally have a pandemic going on in which millions of people have died completely preventable deaths in only a few years, but we didn’t try to prevent those deaths for economic concerns. We literally had capitalists tell us that it’s better to let those people die so we can save the economy. That’s just one example of how completely and utterly capitalism has fucked up our society.

But sure, climate change is a political problem.