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Whether you realise it or not, you are making a very poor argument. I could reply that eating food falls well within a communist system, therefore you can't blame communism for famines.
The fact is that the majority of the world is capitalist (including, of course, major oil companies who have known about climate change for decades and hid the research) and yet the planet is still being made uninhabitable almost as quickly as we possibly can.
Why does capitalism get a free pass for this but communism doesn't get the same treatment?
Try again when you're sober, that's not a particular cogent argument.
I didn't actually make that argument, I just said that I could. It would be of a similar quality to the argument you actually made though.
(Your argument is argument is poor because although carbon taxes could fall under a capitalist system, they are not being implemented in a way that is actually useful. You are arguing hypothetical but unrealised positives for capitalism but not allowing such arguments for communism.)
I won't be replying to you again because I have better things to do than argue online.