Full Idea
It is the drive for growth, not capitalism in particular, that makes environmental disasters happen. Those caused by the command economics of Eastern Europe were far greater than even the worst known in Western Europe.
Gist of Idea
Environmental disasters result not from capitalism, but from a general drive for growth
Source
Adam Gopnik (A Thousand Small Sanities [2019], 3)
Book Reference
Gopnik,Adam: 'A Thousand Small Sanities' [riverrun 2019], p.170
A Reaction
So the next question is whether you can have capitalism without a drive for growth. I would have thought not, given the role recycled profit plays in driving capitalism. Command economies are more easily swept away.