Quote Originally Posted by JamesWales View Post
I don't think capitalism and climate change have much in common; Communist countries don't have good environmental records, nor do socialist countries such as Venezuela.

Those who have decarbonised the most are all resolutely capitalist, and it is from within capitalism that solutions will inevitably be solved.

This isn't meant as a defence of capitalism, which is merely famously the "least worse economic system apart from all the others" it's just that this topic is too important to get lost in wider economic arguments.

We need all countries, all ideologies, all economies to get on board and implying that to deliver climate change means dumping capitalism is only going to make the argument less appealing. It is in fact the big mistake that many Green parties have made, and why they are generally so unelectable.

Personally, I'd avoid conflating the two issues.
That's not at all what what is being said by Monkfish and Croesy here.

If rich politicians are gathering to discuss their response, which is likely to impact poor people most, then that is not happening because of climate change. Climate change is just the guise under which they're doing it.