Book review: The Value of a Whale, by Adrienne Buller

What stops us from acting to stop climate change? Why are we yet to turn a corner on global emissions, let alone bring them down? How is so much talk by so many supposedly powerful people leading to so little action?

Adrienne Buller argues that “self-defeating adherence to flawed assumptions and ‘solutions'” is a big part of the problem. A narrow way of viewing the world has stunted our imaginations and shrunk the range of solutions seen as realistic. In this ‘stocktake’ of where we are, ...