The mainstream left is in denial on economic growth and the climate crisis

Flooding in Loughborough, Leicestershire. ‘Growth-driven capitalism is propelling environmental breakdown’, writes Kate Soper. Photograph: Joe Giddens/PA

I welcome your editorial condemning the climate denialism of Donald Trump and of all those sharing in his obfuscatory responses to the Los Angeles fires (10 January).

I also agree that confronting the climate emergency will require “dismantling the political machinery that breeds denialism”. But it is because I agree that I have to take issue with your suggestion that the refusal to accept the link between the current model of economic growth and the depth of environmental collapse is confined to the populist right.