I edited this groundbreaking report in my capacity as copyeditor to Doctor Edward Cameron, independent climate change analyst and strategist.
According to her son, Eleanor Roosevelt said the same prayer every night and closed with this wish: “Save us from ourselves and show us a vision of a world made new”. This prayer reminds us that even in the middle of a crisis we must keep one eye on the better future we want to create.
Written at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, A World Made New is Doctor Edward Cameron’s call to global governments to resist the temptation to re-establish the pattern of environmental destruction, social injustice and economic inequality that the world was facing long before the acute shock of coronavirus. Instead, he said, this was a moment to reinvent; to turn the emergency into an opportunity to build a 21st century economy and society. His essay offers design principles and practical recommendations to shape the unprecedented rescue packages that were planned by governments at the time into a world that is low-carbon, resilient and inclusive.
