That's the wrong question but the answer is still yes. Significantly so. It's not even close.
The right question is fourfold,
Who has destroyed the environment and killed half of all species and brought/is bringing the world towards ecological/climate collapse? (Capitalists.)
What compels capitalists towards unsustainability, environmental degradation, and pollution? (The profit motive.)
What has compelled communists towards some environmental harms? (The threat of capitalists and capitalist restoration.)
What compels communists to seek to fix this and every other problem created by capitalists? (Unlike capitalists, who are mindlessly driven by profit, communists begin with the premise, 'I think, therefore I can do other things than mindlessly chase profits.')
Do communist countries pollute less?
That's the wrong question but the answer is still yes. Significantly so. It's not even close.
The right question is fourfold,
Who has destroyed the environment and killed half of all species and brought/is bringing the world towards ecological/climate collapse? (Capitalists.)
What compels capitalists towards unsustainability, environmental degradation, and pollution? (The profit motive.)
What has compelled communists towards some environmental harms? (The threat of capitalists and capitalist restoration.)
What compels communists to seek to fix this and every other problem created by capitalists? (Unlike capitalists, who are mindlessly driven by profit, communists begin with the premise, 'I think, therefore I can do other things than mindlessly chase profits.')
China, in 2023 alone, installed more solar capacity than the US has ever done in its entire history.