Fractured Progressivism, China, and the Climate Left

Adam Tooze recently posed a fascinating question:

Taken in the context of prior remarks on the subject and the piece he was linking to, he was suggesting that there’s no way for the Climate Left to get a green economy and zero-carbon world without a productive relationship with China.

For reasons I’ll discuss below, this is obviously true. But it raises something else—what is the “Climate Left” at this point, and what is the prevailing progressive orientation toward China? And how do these two things relate to each other?

This is my wheelhouse.