We shouldn't separate them.

Capitalism and democracy is often sold to us under the assumption that humanity is intelligent and can calculate depth.

Let's say Company A makes $100 products but creates 5000 units of pollution. Company B sells their product at $95 but creates 15000 units of pollution.

In this case, the penalty for pollution is built into the free market. Pollution is still necessary, but at what point is it just reckless? But this can only be the case as long as the market is aware of this cost.

"Political opinion" is an umbrella term for something that should be abstracted out. Global warming is a political opinion. People can just have the "opinion" that the pollution doesn't exist. Same for sweatshops, child labor, bribery, corruption, women's rights, and all these other pollution-like effects that damage the world.

Yes, I like my cheap, high quality t-shirts from Bangladesh, and I like the low cost labor that bring me my $0.16 tea bags. I like the water-guzzling, plagiarism machines that write my code for me.

But we have to decide at what point we tolerate these costs and for what output.