To criticize capitalism only is an old recipe that does not work. Capitalism is not an accident of history.
We might agree about the diagnostic but not about the means and the prognostic.
Capitalism is here because historically it matches the need for globalization. Globalization is here because it matches the need of a fast growing population that can less and less survive with local resources and need to access other resources on someone else territory; One example is phosphate that is imported from Marocko, another is oil, but you can add copper (fight against fungi used even in organic agriculture etc…).
I recommend the author to read “too smart for our own good” by craig dilworth and i would like people to start from this dire diagnostic and go therefrom.
I am convinced that there are solutions. I am myself, as many living from the land to a great extent and proven that one can feed is family with vegetables with much surplus on 300 m2. Recycling on a small scale is extremely efficient.
But this won’t work in such a complex social system as we have, and not if the demographic pressure still goes on, because this is the driving force behind industrialization and need for forced complexity. We need a stable population to plan ahead and degrow rationnaly.
Wether this will happen or not, we need to go back to the land massively and make small farming units where industry cannot use the land (a lot in the northern part or hilly places where only hand tools or small machine can be used to grow food). Once this is done they might organize themselves their surplus to recreate what man has always liked: travel, art, spirituality and science.
But to organize it on a massive social scale has failed and will fail. Ecology is about individuals being active, not passive followers. We also need to organize ourselves against the pressure of the big social structure behind industry to get some room, and eventually if things get coarse defend our way of life proactively. Especially when states are used by mafia to seize lands or set discriminative rules to sell for instance.
In that sense, my model are the amish or the new believers in Russia, though my only religion is nature. You can contact me if you are in for such a network.