Investor Jeremy Grantham of GMO recently published a
startlingly depressing outlook for the future of humanity, according to BI. Grantham thinks the number of people on Earth
has finally and permanently outstripped the planet's ability to support us.
Grantham believes that the planet can only sustainably
support about 1.5 billion humans, versus the 7 billion on Earth right now
(heading to 10-12 billion).
Basically, Grantham thinks most of us are going to starve to
death. Why? In part because we're churning through a finite supply of something
that is critical to our ability to produce food:…
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