"...  "prosperous market-oriented societies" do the most to fix "environmental problems" because they did the most to 
create them ..."   Basically, nonsense.  You need to take a good, hard look at the environmental record of the East Block, before the Berlin wall came down.   I'll give you a few pointers:  Aral Sea; high-Arctic haze from N'orilsk smelters; plutonium pollution of river Techa; holding ponds in the (now) Czech republic with enough dissolved arsenic to poison every last single person on the European continent, if you wanted to (about 10,000 tonnes worth.  Lessee - that's *how many* Love Canals?  I lost count.)  :-/

When it came to destroying the environment, nothing did quite as effective a job as good ol' fashioned Soviet socialism.  Yet the Naomi Kleins of the world want us to reprise that social and economic system.  Pretty oblivious of them, to say the least ...