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‘Everything Is Accelerating’ in the Climate Fight, Billionaire Investor Warns
Disasters caused by warming are speeding up, according to Jeremy Grantham—but so are solutions.
Jeremy Grantham
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More than a year ago, legendary investor Jeremy Grantham announced he was devoting almost his entire fortune, more than $1 billion, to the fight against climate change.
Humanity is in the “race of our lives,” he warned, a terrifying competition between the Earth’s rising temperatures and the many ways people are responding to the crisis. Since then, the race has only sped up, the 81-year-old co-founder of Grantham Mayo Van Otterloo (GMO) now says.