I read the first half with great approval, but somewhere around here it switched to horror.

You quite correctly said that if preventing the climate catastrophe is possible, it will be extremely expensive and not at all profitable.

I have heard for fifty years now that we could rejigger capitalism to somehow make it economic not to kill our ecosystem. Carbon offsets are over thirty years old! But this year we will yet again emit a new record amount of CO2.

The way we are destroying our world is simple - I make a dollar destroying the environment, and twenty years later, this costs a lot of people I don't know a total of $10. So how does capitalism actually fix this? There is no way to make degrowth profitable.

We've had regulated capitalism for three generations now, and yet the US still spends more money on fossil fuel subsidies than it does on mitigating the climate catastrophe.

Your argument could be summarized as, "We're in a terrible crisis that we have made no progress on in fifty years, and the solution for it is business as usual."

It's irrational.