There is a widespread scientific consensus on the dangers posed by climate change to human societies and the role of humans in causing the great majority of those climatic changes. 1 Yet action on climate change has been inadequate in dealing with the climate crisis. 2 The climate crisis can be seen as an inevitable outcome of the expression of class power. That is, over centuries, owners of the means of production have been able to extract profits through capitalist production, and part of that Has involved externalising costs onto others-some have even referred TO the capitalist corporation as an 'externalising machine•.3 This externalising has led to the over-production of carbon emissions that now threaten the planet. While we argue below that the situation is a little more complex than this-for one thing, it is important to understand divisions within the capitalist elite about climate change-it is nonetheless case case that the context for understanding the climate crisis is provided by class, and so class also affects attitudes to dealing with it. The purpose of this chapter is to ask: What is the relationship between class, attitudes and the climate crisis? We look at this question from two angles-the links between attitudes, collectivism and class; and the link between class and attitudes to the climate crisis. Class and attitudes have been discussed extensively in the work of Murray Goot, who has shattered many shibboleths about both issues.4 In this chapter we seek to apply many of the lessons from that scholarship to the climate crisis. Some of the shibboleths on this topic are propagated by opponents of action on climate change, but others by those who seek urgent action.