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Jeremy Grantham, environmental philanthropist: 'We're trying to buy time for the world to wake up'

2013-04-12 20:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: One icy morning in February, a train pulled into Washington DC. It was loaded with environmentalists planning to handcuff themselves to the gates of the White House, in protest at the building of a 3,500km oil pipeline from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico. Amid the hundreds of placard-carrying protesters stood a somewhat incongruous figure in a suit Jeremy Grantham, a 74-year-old fund manager. "What we are trying to do is buy time," he told reporters. "Buy time for the world to wake up." Grantham...

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