“Ethical Markets highly recommends this new White Paper by one of the best-informed investors on the planet, Jeremy Bentham, of GMO www.gmo.com, who has been sounding alarms on climate change and threats to our food supply and long-term survival for many years.
This paper updates his earlier forecasts and shows the performance of his investment strategies in shifting from fossil fuels to renewable energy, efficiency and green technologies, and his current portfolio holdings. We have tracked these same trends since 2009 in our annual Green Transition Scoreboard®, with current totals of these green private investments worldwide since 2007.
Our 2018 report now shows $9.3 trillion in the pipeline, and also addresses the major trends in Grantham’s paper: the current threats to agriculture and our global food supplies, the need to continue this shift to green economies, from meat to plant-protein diets, as well as to capture CO2 directly from the Earth’s atmosphere:
“Capturing CO2 While Improving Human Nutrition & Health “, agrees with all Grantham’s recommendations for action and policy shifts , while also advocating a global shift from investing in the planet’s current 3% of freshwater, on which all our agriculture and food supply depends , to the 97% of saltwater and the thousands of varieties of salt-loving plants ( halophytes, e.g. quinoa ) which grow in 22 countries on desert and degraded lands , requiring no fertilizers or pesticides , and provide high quality complete proteins and minerals for optimal human nutrition.
Even though we refer to all the scientists who advocate this shift to halophyte agriculture , including NASA Chief Scientist Dennis Bushnell, whom we interview in our companion TV program “Investing In Saltwater Agriculture: The Next Big Thing”, we realize the cognitive bias in denials of this obvious, viable and cost-effective shift: ” theory-induced blindness“! In addition, the agro-chemical industrial food complex is as powerful as the fossil fuel sector, and will resist this paradigm-shifting change .
~Hazel Henderson, Editor“
“The Race of Our Lives”