Capitalism is actually a major obstacle because it inefficiently redistributes innovations. The technology we need to rescue ourselves and the planet has to be implemented now, but because capitalism operates on affordability and competition, it can't be distributed fast enough. Capitalism operates on price incentives only, which relates to money, and money isn't real. Life and earthly resources are real, but they are not factored into input costs.
The other problem is that the wealthy account for the world's largest amount of waste. They squander huge amounts of resources on luxuries and their personal lifestyle. There's no concept of conservation. The bottom 70% of humanity produces less waste than the top 30% of the wealthy elite. They spend their money trying to obfuscate this point with media propaganda, but the truth is becoming apparent. The people causing most of the world's problems are a minority. They are human beings with addresses. The only thing protecting them from a mob is that they have everyone convinced that the problem is something else. These are the fruits of capitalism. The goal is to build capital at the expense of everything else, even the future of life itself. Then you horde and the game is won.
We basically need a resource based economy now, but it's not going to happen "because socialism". We also have the baby boomer generation clinging to power and still trying to convince everyone that the current economic model is OK even though the house is burning down. They won't ease up, they just need to die already. Only then can solutions be implemented.
I have hope for future generations. The young people today are bright and can see what's wrong. They just have no agency. That will change once their dysfunctional elders die out. The problem is that the world's ecology won't last that long. We have 20-30 years max, if that.