The Value of a Whale Quotes

“How can we, despite countless government pledges and programmes and a groundswell of civic society, remain quietly on course to sacrifice swathes of this planet's people and lifeforms to the demands of an affluent and powerful minority?”
― Adrienne Buller, The Value of a Whale: On the Illusions of Green Capitalism

“In recent decades, the default position of most carbon intensive industries, like coal mining firms or petrochemicals producers, has been to resist or to obstruct any transition toward an economy which might not risk the continued viability of the climate and ecosystems upon which we rely.”
― Adrienne Buller, The Value of a Whale: On the Illusions of Green Capitalism