Jeremy Grantham
speaker
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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What do you mean by that, sorry, 2.1?
2.1 is the number of children it takes for a rich society to have a steady population.
Per couple?
Per couple.
If you have less than 2.1 per couple,
you fairly rapidly go out of business.
If you have more than 2.1, you fairly rapidly end up with so many people, you're standing on each other's shoulders.
The commons are things like common land in the old days.
Anyone could put their sheep on, and what tended to happen is everyone put more sheep than they could stand, and pretty soon it had no grass on it, known as the tragedy of the commons.
And we all need
clean air, clean water, fertile soil, and 2.1 healthy, well-educated children.
Without any of those, society fails.
All of them have to be treated as group responsibility.
So the whole society, the whole village
has to be in a way like a kibbutz eventually.
You have to put everything behind making it doable to have children because the long list of economic and social reasons, as well as toxic reasons why people can't have 2.1 children, is getting so long and so dangerous.
And nothing yet has worked.
I mean, they've tried, you tell me, 200 different things around the world.
Several percentage points of GDP in one or two cases.
And nothing yet has seen a permanent uptick in baby production.
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