We need to be moving before technology becomes profitable. This is one of the major downsides of capitalism. We temper it somewhat with government investment and regulation, but buy-in-large, the profit motive is what drives practically all economic questions.

We simply do not have time.

We need to building more energy storage, like yesterday.

It just hasn't made much financial sense to build it, because fossil fuels were cheap, now we're slowly getting started.

If the profit motive wasn't the motive above all else, we could get a whole bunch more done in the fight on climate change.

We can't wait for capitalism. It's just not fundamentally aligned with our preservation, it's aligned with profit motive.

We're lucky it's becoming more profitable. But we're still massively reliant on fossil fuels. It's way, way, way, way not fast enough.

And yes, capitalism is the problem. If governments weren't so afraid of being criticised for how they run something we'd bring back more state run organisations and just start building, even if it runs at a "loss".

Or at the very, very least, we should be directly contracting private companies to build and maintain the infrastructure, but WE own it. Not them.

Conclusion, capitalism isn't the only economic system we can imagine. We already temper it. We used to even temper it more than we do now (post-world war II in the anglosphere, as an example, until the neo-libs privatised practically everything).

The neo-liberal experiment has been a colossal failure.

Capitalism isn't the end of history.