In store now! The Value of a Whale by Adrienne Buller

What is the cost of our destruction of the planet? Can we place a value on a living organism? If we do, what does that value mean in the context of its own obliteration? Through these pertinent questions, Buller analyses how capitalism created this mess we’re in, and how that same system is currently locking us out from taking necessary steps to avoid calamity. With clarity, honesty, and hope, Buller poses the most important question of all: in the battle between capital and nature, what is it that we really value?

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The Value of a Whale by Adrienne Buller

Paperback £12.99

Public understanding of, and outcry over, the dire state of the climate and environment is greater than ever before. Parties across the political spectrum claim to be climate leaders, and overt denial is on the way out. Yet when it comes to slowing the course of the climate and nature crises, despite a growing number of pledges, policies and summits, little ever seems to change.

Nature is being destroyed at an unprecedented rate. We remain on course for a catastrophic 3 DegreesC of warming. What's holding us back? In this searing and insightful critique, Adrienne Buller examines the fatal biases that have shaped the response of our governing institutions to climate and environmental breakdown, and asks: are the 'solutions' being proposed really solutions? Tracing the intricate connections between financial power, economic injustice and ecological crisis, she exposes the myopic economism and market-centric thinking presently undermining a future where all life can flourish.

The book examines what is wrong with mainstream climate and environmental governance, from carbon pricing and offset markets to 'green growth', the commodification of nature and the growing influence of the finance industry on environmental policy. In doing so, it exposes the self-defeating logic of a response to these challenges based on creating new opportunities for profit, and a refusal to grapple with the inequalities and injustices that have created them.

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