Well, I agree with everything Lucy Lant (PN 2542) says about climate change and most of what she says about capitalism, but I can’t understand why much of the environmental movement ignores the role of those officially communist countries which are at least as exploitative of the environment and its natural resources.
Yes I know they are not genuinely socialist but they certainly wouldn’t call themselves capitalist and China, to take the worst example, is responsible for huge and increasing environmental depredation. To focus just on capitalism over this issue is lazy thinking. The real enemy is the consumerist lifestyle that the west has held up as the acme of “civilisation” and which developing countries, understandably, want to copy.