Leftists hate capitalism, but they can not point to any statist regimes that do a better job for the environment.
Great point. Look at China. How many babies died last year in China because of the contaminated baby formula? The Olympics were almost a bust because of the pollution. They had to CUT the algae out of the canoeing and kayaking venues because of the raw sewage that caused a algae bloom of near biblical proportions.
My favorite is the "Three Gorges Dam". It was/is apparently an ecological calamity. It couldn't have been built anywhere in the world except for China because of the absolute absence of environmental protection.