Jeremy Grantham
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906 appearances
3 recordings
2 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 30 Jul
Jeremy Grantham’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And by the way, the population is going to decline.
Young family formations are already declining in many of the richer countries.
And if you have family formations declining and you have super expensive houses, what do you think is going to happen?
Now, you could say, well, perhaps there will be a mysterious increase in family formations and that the chronic baby bust that we maybe will talk about soon will stop.
Yeah, you are.
Well...
Starting 27 years ago with the foundation, we were committed to start thinking about everything to do with the climate.
And you're moving in the right circle then, because the next thing is we started to worry about the cataclysmic decline in insects.
I don't know if you're aware of this, but insects appear to have dropped in biomass, the weight of the flying insects, by 50 to 75% in the last 60, 70 years.
And E.O.
Wilson, the famous Ant-Man, he believed that nature could handle the loss of humans easily, effortlessly, but it could not handle the loss of insects.
That insects are, in a sense, he felt, and his fellow experts, he represented them as thinking the same way, that insects are the bedrock of nature.
And if they start to go out of business, then the birds who feed on them and the amphibians, they start to decline, which they have done also catastrophically.
One thing leads to another and the beetles are no longer recycling the forest floor and eventually things won't grow and
no one to fertilize the plants and the damage spreads.
And he felt that eventually loss of insects would lead to a more or less complete failure of nature and we would inherit a planet that was no longer conducive to humans.
We noticed that some of the same effects are felt by humans.
And a report came out
Shauna Swan and Haggai Levine, I think it finished in 2011, and it made the case that sperm count had been dropping, had almost halved since the first reports, academic reports in 1970.
So I immediately said, this has the feeling of something that is really important.
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