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You can limit capitalism without abolishing it.
In Germany people are guaranteed 20/24 paid vacation days. That's not profitable.
That's a limit imposed on capitalism. It can be done and has been done without abolishing capitalism.
That's just one of the thousands of policies that limit capitalism.
You can limit capitalism (as literally every capitalist nation does) without abolishing it.
Enforcing climate friendlyness would be just another limit.
When you try to limit capitalism you get nuclear plants being shut down and coal plants being opened and the environment still being destroyed.