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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We've got to detoxify the world, which is intellectually easy.

You ban poisonous chemicals.

And we've made, in the EU, a pretty good start.

My favorite example and everybody's favorite example is cosmetics.

Cosmetics, you don't actually eat it, but you rub it on your skin, which is the second worst thing to do.

And there are 10,000 chemicals in cosmetics.

And the EU has banned 1,500.

If they ban the right 1,500, that could be three quarters of the battle, right?

Canada's banned 550 and the US has banned 12.

I am not kidding you.

So the good thing about toxicity is it is regional.

If one country, if Denmark or the EU or the UK wants to look after its chemicals, they will live longer and have better health.

If the US wants to put the corporations first, they will have shorter lives.

Do you know the life expectancy difference between the US and Sweden has gone from two years to six years in the last 70 years?

I wrote in my quarterly letter, my estate would be willing to bet you that in 50 years, it'll be eight or 10.

Atrazine.

Let us just say that the EU is forever giving exemptions and extensions and is far from perfect and has a lot of corporate pushback.

And it's just much less bad than the US.

It does.

And it's the only rich country in the world where 15 years ago, they had the same life expectancy as they have today.

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