The Chinese Communist Party's capitalism fouls it up as effectively as free-enterprise capitalism.  Do you think the Chinese people think it glorious to breathe the filthy air of factory owners who believe it is "glorious to be rich"?

Capitalism Fouls It Up

When accused of threatening the world's environment American capitalists say, "Well, we're not the only ones!" which is true.  China's industrial sewage is huge and growing, India is pretty smoky, and Europe isn't reducing carbon dioxide emissions all that rapidly either.  But the United States is still the largest threat to the climate, and we have contributed the largest amount of CO2 historically.  It is the sorrow of the world that the Crisis of Capitalism, here and abroad, is not merely an abstraction.

Those who own the productive might of the industrialized nations are seated most uncomfortably on the horns of a dilemma:

If they immediately cease producing all the sources of CO2 - cars, planes, electricity generated from coal,   etc., they go broke.  Their capital is tied up in these industries and it can not just be pulled out like a cork in a bottle.  If they don't begin a rapid transition to solar and wind power, and sustainable agriculture and industry, they still go broke and the world withers away during run-away global warming.  We ordinary people are no idle witnesses to the capitalists' dilemma.   It is our world, and if its life support system fails, we will be the first to suffer before we die.

On the North American continent, the signs of progress are sporadic and uninspiring.  If our elected government intended to turn the Titanic of State before it hits the ice berg and sinks, they would abandon
the wars in the Middle East and redirect those many billions of dollars to crash programs of building mass transit systems, fast train infrastructure, and very large installations of solar thermal, solar electric, and wind generation facilities.

What can one person do?

1. Learn as much as you can about how our political and economic system really works.  Global warming is a political problem as much as an environmental one. 
2. Join and support groups that are working for the kind of changes that will preserve a livable environment for the future
3. Reduce your own carbon foot print, if you haven't already done so.  No matter what the government or corporations do, there are still decisions that individuals must make about how they conduct their lives in the context of global warming
4. Support candidates for office who are the most aggressive in their proposals and performance to stop global warming.  For the most part, these will not be Democrats or Republicans.