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I think I'm right-brained, incapable of managing my way out of a brown paper bag.
Jeremy Grantham
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Jeremy Grantham
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: October 6
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Robert Jeremy Goltho Grantham
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The language it's too late is very unsuitable for most environmental issues. It's too late for the dodo and for people who've starved to death already, but it's not too late to prevent an even bigger crisis. The sooner we act on the environment, the better.
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Battering down solar cells on the roofs of Wal-Marts in California. I think that will be some of the highest-return investments that anyone ever makes.
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