Late last year, FT deputy news editor Alice Ross published Investing To Save The Planet, one of the most thought-provoking books to emerge from our enforced lockdown. Noting that life’s slower, more considered pace, had had a discernible impact, Ms Ross writes that “People started to notice how companies were handling the coronavirus. Some were firing their workers. Others were guaranteeing jobs. The investors in these companies started to notice too.
“Our collective experience of the [pandemic] drew comparisons with climate change: both were a common enemy that would best be fought through co-operation… ‘Build Back Better’ became a catchphrase as governments tried to figure out how to emerge from the economic crisis in the right way.”
Late last year, FT deputy news editor Alice Ross published Investing To Save The Planet, one of the most thought-provoking books to emerge from our enforced lockdown. Noting that life’s slower, more considered pace, had had a discernible impact, Ms Ross writes that “People started to notice how companies were handling the coronavirus. Some were firing their workers. Others were guaranteeing jobs. The investors in these companies started to notice too.
“Our collective experience of the [pandemic] drew comparisons with climate change: both were a common enemy that would best be fought through co-operation… ‘Build Back Better’ became a catchphrase as governments tried to figure out how to emerge from the economic crisis in the right way.”