Sure, it's been pretty good for Western societyI like our current economic system for the most part.
First, people can still have babies and also have zero population growth. 2 parents -> 2 kids = replacement rate population growth.I mentioned that because our increasing population creates or contributes to so many of the problems we are trying to address - feeding and housing more people requires related manufacturing, transportation, destruction of natural environments, etc.
Well, technically, no type of transit is free - it may be paid for in a different way or by a different entity but it is never going to be free (unless everyone is walking). Automobile emissions are definitely a terrible problem that we haven't really solved yet - it is my understanding that producing and powering electric vehicles creates as much or more of an issue as the old fashioned cars, the emissions and environmental destruction just takes place in a different place (That may not be totally accurate, I am no expert).
When you say capitalism what do you really mean - the profit motive? If we are really shipping products like peaches multiple times within the supply chain it can only be for one reason - it is more profitable to do it that way. Why is it more profitable to do that? I don't know the answer but it is clearly less efficient so it would have to be massively cheaper to can them in the second place than in the first place in order to make all the shipping worth it. Figure out and address why that is and you solve the problem.
Instead of getting rid of capitalism maybe we harness it - make solving the issues of emissions, pollution, climate change, etc. profitable enough and they will be solved.
Just to be clear - I am not being argumentative on this topic - I'm sure our politics are far apart but I enjoy learning about viewpoints I don't understand... Climate is an incredibly complicated issue. The only beef I have ever had with the climate change "movement", if you will, is that I believe they exaggerate the extent to which we (we being the climate science community) really understand all of the causes and effects that factor into the global climate. I have no doubt that our climate is changing and that we should be doing what we can to impact that change in positive ways.
Also, the objectives of most big business is now about stock prices and investor satisfaction, not about costs of doing business, not about efficiency of production, not about profits even, is about stockholders. The objectives of business and the economy are largely removed from the real-world consequences of doing business so long as stock prices go up by half a penny a week no one cares. So the reason we ship peaches over the ocean two or three times before you get them on a store shelf is because it makes the stockholder happier/richer, somehow.
I am not a rabid communist like MHB or townie (winky face emoji), but do I see not reality in which solving the issues of pollution and climate change are profitable to stockholders without government intervention to create markets incentivizing green invention and development, and putting the costs of polluting back on the polluters. Our society has set up our entire economic system to privatize the profits and socialize the costs and what you're talking about would shift the cost of doing business from collective public impact to companies and stockholders that did the polluting in the first place. The people with money are going fight that shift in every way that they can because they won't want to spend their own money to clean up what they regard as, and heretofore has been, everyone else's mess.