The Baby Bust: How The Toxicity Crisis Could Cause the Next Economic Crash with Jeremy Grantham
The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens
Nate Hagens
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🗓️ 11 December 2024
⏱️ 108 minutes
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(Conversation recorded on November 5th, 2024)
It is no secret that population dynamics significantly impact global stability. But what's really behind today's shifting global birth trends, the increased need for medically-assisted pregnancy, and the changing age demographics of industrialized nations? Furthermore, what are the implications of these shifts for future economic security?
Today, Nate is joined by investment strategist Jeremy Grantham to discuss the critical but underreported issues surrounding toxicity and public health – particularly endocrine disruptors and their impact on human fertility, longevity, and societal structures.
In this important conversation, Jeremy highlights the ubiquitousness of toxicity in our modern environments, the cultural and economic factors contributing to declining fertility rates, and the urgent need to transition to non-toxic materials and energy sources.
In what ways could population decline pose serious economic challenges, particularly in aging societies? How might the alarming drop in sperm count affect future policies on immigration? Finally, how can we detoxify both our environments – and capitalism – before it's too late?
About Jeremy Grantham:
Jeremy Grantham co-founded GMO in 1977 and is a member of GMO's Asset Allocation team, serving as the firm's long-term investment strategist. He is a member of the GMO Board of Directors, a partner of the firm, and has also served on the investment boards of several non-profit organizations. Additionally in 1989, Jeremy co-founded the Grantham Foundation for the Protection of the Environment. Prior to GMO's founding, Mr. Grantham was co-founder of Batterymarch Financial Management in 1969 where he recommended commercial indexing in 1971, one of several claims to being first. He began his investment career as an economist with Royal Dutch Shell. Mr. Grantham earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Sheffield (U.K.) and an MBA from Harvard Business School. He is a member of the Academy of Arts and Sciences, holds a CBE from the UK and is a recipient of the Carnegie Medal for Philanthropy.
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| 0:00.0 | Humans live with our nose absolutely pressed up to toxicity. |
| 0:04.0 | We eat fruit and vegetables in particular covered in toxic pesticides designed to kill insects, plants and fungus. |
| 0:13.0 | Everything around us, carpets, etc., and the dental flus we use, everything is dripping in toxins. The plastic we wrap our food in, leeches toxins |
| 0:24.1 | into our food. So we have a special problem, and it's showing up in our fertility. |
| 0:32.7 | You're listening to The Great Simplification. I'm Nate Hagen's. On this show, we describe how energy, |
| 0:39.3 | the economy, the environment and human behavior all fit together and what it might mean for our |
| 0:45.2 | future. By sharing insights from global thinkers, we hope to inform and inspire more humans |
| 0:51.5 | to play emergent roles in the coming Great Simplification. |
| 0:59.7 | Today I am pleased to introduce for a second conversation on the Great Simplification, |
| 1:06.2 | Jeremy Grantham. Jeremy is perhaps best known for co-founding the investment and asset management |
| 1:12.6 | company GMO in 1977 and for his widely read GMO quarterly newsletter, which has been ahead of |
| 1:20.9 | its time for a long time on issues like climate change, resource depletion, phosphorus limits, |
| 1:26.9 | and many other topics related to the |
| 1:29.9 | biophysical systems that underpin human economies. Jeremy is also known as an active |
| 1:35.7 | philanthropist champion issues and causes related to the environment and for livable human |
| 1:42.1 | futures. In this episode, |
| 1:44.8 | we dive into the topic of toxicity and population, |
| 1:49.7 | uh, |
| 1:50.1 | specifically how endocrine disrupting chemicals, |
| 1:53.4 | uh, |
| 1:53.8 | impact human fertility and what that could mean for the human population in the future. |
| 1:59.5 | The findings Jeremy presents in today's episode come from his research that he funds, |
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