Capitalism is the disaster of being Human, and represents the forgetting of Happiness.

Why don't environmentalists ever mention Capitalism?

Its the single biggest threat to life on this planet. Its the economic system that organises itself around profit and investor returns. That means we no longer work for our welfare, we just work to make profit and that means an unlimited exploitation of the planet for no other reason that to make an arbitrary and meaningless spectrum of wealth. Companies have to delivery profit and dividends above all other considerations. That means their primary objective is to increase sales and cut costs. It doesn't matter whether what they are doing serves any purpose as long as it makes money. That means any whimsical spontaneous act of consumerism is a reward, and people are encouraged to work not for what they do, but just to make money.

Consider: however rich you are today, your children will be richer.. everyone must always accept being poor thus making progress pointless... unless you learn to appreciate what you have today in which case there is no difference from 10,000 years ago or 10,000 in the future also making progress pointless. Capitalism IS POINTLESS. But it destroys the planet and all life in the process.

So why is the media not full of this? Same reason the media is not full of the evils of America. We are brainwashed. This is entering anthropology as human evolution is seen to have gone down a blind alley of attachment to material possessions which has steadily got them trapped in an epic "sunk costs" fallacy. Being unhappy with what we have (stimulated by capitalists pushing new products) we buy more to try and regain that happiness, but this requires work so we invest more and so expect more and we steadily getting ever more stuck in Capitalism and eventually forget what happiness is (like all Americans from what I can see).