Capitalists despoil the environment.
Capitalists despoil the environment.
Clearly governments all stripes have done their share of environmental damage. The air and water in such different countries as Mexico, India, and China is dreadful despite their extremely varied political and economic structures. However, the Soviet Union turned large areas of Eastern Europe and its own territory into toxic wastelands far worse than anything in the capitalist world. Unilateral development projects which are not forced to take such factors into account are far more likely to damage the environment. Back to list of misconceptions.