Wavemaker Conversations: A Podcast For The Insanely Curious

The latest climate change developments make it feel like we are on a runaway train that will flatten the dreams of our children.  With this episode of Wavemaker Conversations, I hope to play a small part in slowing down that train.  My guest, Spencer Glendon, is a former Partner at the trillion-dollar investment firm, Wellington Management.  His work there centered on topics ignored in the world of finance but with potential for a seismic impact.    Twenty years ago, when the Chinese economy was relatively insignificant, he foresaw its meteoric rise, and its threat to America’s middle class, before most others. Ten years ago, he turned his attention to climate change.   And I’ve been following his work closely since 2019, when he gave one of the most riveting presentations on global warming that I’ve ever seen. After many years working on climate change from his position in the financial world, Glendon has created a nonprofit organization called Probable Futures -- which is devel