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- Gmo Quarterly Letter: Just How Bad Is Emerging, And How Good Is The U.s.? And Give Me Only Good News!
Link to: Just How Bad Is Emerging, and How Good Is the U.S.? and Give Me Only Good News!GMO's 3Q 2015 Letter includes Ben Inker's "Just How Bad Is Emerging, and How Good Is the U.S.?" and Jeremy Grantham's "Give Me Good News Only!" ..... [Inker] And...
- Richard Leakey: Evolution Debate Will Soon Be History
Richard Leakey predicts skepticism over evolution will soon be history. Not that the avowed atheist has any doubts himself. Sometime in the next 15 to 30 years, the Kenyan-born paleoanthropologist expects scientific discoveries will have accelerated to...
- Bill Gates: Growing Enough Food To Feed The World
How can we feed a growing population in the midst of climate change and an appetite for more meat? These factors and more are straining the world’s agricultural capacity and pushing up the cost of food, which makes it difficult for the world’s poorest...
- Why Doesn’t America Like Science? - By Gillian Tett
Michael Bloomberg, mayor of New York, does not often hide his views. When he recently addressed an international economic forum at Columbia University, on the seemingly “dull” topic of science and politicians, however, his words were incendiary, even...
- Bloomberg Calls For Tax On Carbon Emissions
Not really investment related, but a great speech by Michael Bloomberg:-It’s time for America to re-establish its leadership on all issues of international importance, including climate change. Because if we are going to remain the world’s moral compass...
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Jeremy Grantham: Be persuasive. Be brave. Be arrested (if necessary)
Found via The Big Picture.
I have yet to meet a climate scientist who does not believe that global warming is a worse problem than they thought a few years ago. The seriousness of this change is not appreciated by politicians and the public. The scientific world carefully measures the speed with which we approach the cliff and will, no doubt, carefully measure our rate of fall. But it is not doing enough to stop it. I am a specialist in investment bubbles, not climate science. But the effects of climate change can only exacerbate the ecological trouble I see reflected in the financial markets — soaring commodity prices and impending shortages.
- Gmo Quarterly Letter: Just How Bad Is Emerging, And How Good Is The U.s.? And Give Me Only Good News!
Link to: Just How Bad Is Emerging, and How Good Is the U.S.? and Give Me Only Good News!GMO's 3Q 2015 Letter includes Ben Inker's "Just How Bad Is Emerging, and How Good Is the U.S.?" and Jeremy Grantham's "Give Me Good News Only!" ..... [Inker] And...
- Richard Leakey: Evolution Debate Will Soon Be History
Richard Leakey predicts skepticism over evolution will soon be history. Not that the avowed atheist has any doubts himself. Sometime in the next 15 to 30 years, the Kenyan-born paleoanthropologist expects scientific discoveries will have accelerated to...
- Bill Gates: Growing Enough Food To Feed The World
How can we feed a growing population in the midst of climate change and an appetite for more meat? These factors and more are straining the world’s agricultural capacity and pushing up the cost of food, which makes it difficult for the world’s poorest...
- Why Doesn’t America Like Science? - By Gillian Tett
Michael Bloomberg, mayor of New York, does not often hide his views. When he recently addressed an international economic forum at Columbia University, on the seemingly “dull” topic of science and politicians, however, his words were incendiary, even...
- Bloomberg Calls For Tax On Carbon Emissions
Not really investment related, but a great speech by Michael Bloomberg:-It’s time for America to re-establish its leadership on all issues of international importance, including climate change. Because if we are going to remain the world’s moral compass...