10 How investing in the future is destroying the planet

In the latest issue of Net Zero Heroes podcast, I am joined by Dr David Ko and Richard Busellato, authors of The Unsustainable Truth (2021). They are both experienced investment managers turned sustainability experts. They left their previous sector in recognition of how the world's reliance on investments drives many of the processes that exasperate climate change. The book focuses on how investing for the future is destroying the planet and what we can do about it. Our lives today are split between living every day and accumulating money for our future. We have over 100 trillion invested, more than the size of the global economy and the planet no longer produces enough to keep this growing. There is no other way to say it, as savings are killing the planet.