We don't need an end to capitalism.<p>Just an end to capitalism that perversely carves out an exception to normal reciprocal arrangements for using other people's property, for one of the most important categories of property: universally owned property. I.e. the environment.<p>Today, the value of our joint inherited environment has no systematic representation. The default is, do your damage until it is significant enough, and some white knight politicians, finally try to limit the damage with one-off narrow per-case idiosyncratic limits.<p>No wonder protecting the environment is near impossible. Legally and politically, our systems are tilted far into the direction of non-protection. Ignoring the literal reality of joint inheritance, and ignoring the tremendous value being mismanaged.<p>The default should be: reciprocal agreements in the form of cap and trade for all public asset impact. Most especially the environment. Exactly as it is required for impact anyone wants to have on another owners private property.<p>Then the legal and political default would be to protect the value of joint assets, and maximize the value back to the public of their use.<p>Then all the wonderful magic of capitalism, for optimizing the value of resources, would work for the environment.<p>This even creates an avenue for some universal income. We all should be paid for use of the non-human created, jointly inherited asset: the environment.<p>Instead of the default being endless over pollution of CO2, plastics, etc., the default would be all entities pay for what they use, and pay even more for what they use that requires fund for offsetting the damage. Suddenly capitalism and the environment work.<p>And we all get and dividend, reflecting our jointly inherited asset, on its use.<p>Value which will go up for everyone as the economy grows, without any form of wealth redistribution.<p>The numbers of top tier problems this would contribute solutions or partial solutions to, is considerable.