In India, millions of tyres are sent each year from Britain to be burned in dangerous furnaces. In Brazil, miles of rainforest are being cleared to make way for the COP climate conference. Everywhere, the capitalists’ ‘solutions’ to the climate crisis are being exposed.

The notion of ‘degrowth’ – which advocates cutting down production to save the planet – has gained popularity within the climate movement. But there’s nothing radical about these academic, reformist ideas. Here, Lubna Badi provides a Marxist response to ‘degrowth’.

Recent storms have laid waste to large areas of Britain, exposing how utterly inadequate the country’s infrastructure is in the face of climate-related disasters. Only socialist planning can ensure that society adapts and averts a catastrophe.