Climate Change Isn’t Everything, by Mike Hulme

This Changes Everything was the title of Naomi Klein’s big climate book a few years ago. This book echoes that in both the title and its blue design, striking a cautionary note – other things matter too, and there are consequences to forgetting that. And no, as Hulme says in pretty much every chapter, that isn’t a climate sceptic position. Climate action matters.

The problem that Hulme wants to interrogate is what he calls ‘climatism’. This he defines as “the settled belief that the domi...