That's an intriguing account of capitalism. But I'm not sure how a more local, sustainable, resource-based economy, as you say, would conflict with capitalism unless there were no private property in the successor. Capitalism is roughly the insistence on private property, based on the entrepreneurial spirit of reinvesting profit as capital to grow a business. Or something like that, but the key is that everyone deserves the freedom to work and to own what they can purchase. It's the humanistic faith in progress in the economic context, except that we lose sight of our human rights in the case of those who fall behind in the competition for wealth and property.