Posted on 05/03/2014 8:14:38 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
...Five years ago, green jobs were all the rage in Washington. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act was rolled out with a win-win agenda aimed at fixing the economy and healing the environment at once. Candidate Obama touted a blueprint for a green economy, with plans to create 5 million green jobs.
Though federal green initiatives have provided vital seed money for wind farms and solar-generation projects nationwide, the blue-collar workers who have the most to gain from the projected clean-tech boom are still struggling to find any job, much less a green one.
Indeed, some environmentalists say that green jobs might have been a more sustainable political venture if they had been more realistically billed as part of a broader climate change policy, not a big jobs booster in a slumped economy.
Rather than bean-counting with job statistics and return-on-investment figures, activists can start rethinking green within the context of social protection, and focus on building policies around social equityfrom subsidizing green power for low-income households, to shifting jobs from coal plants to the solar panels. Environmentalism can be a populist movementif the political framing of climate policy centers not on just cutting carbon but cultivating justice.
(Excerpt) Read more at thenation.com ...
Even if Thomas Gold’s theory is correct, it will cost vastly more to drill miles deep. Fundamental economics and free markets should still determine the most cost-effective method to meet the energy demands of consumers.
Oil and gas are hydrocarbon based....so are organic ...thus here are the “Green” jobs...in West Texas, ND and other fracking places.
“Even if Thomas Golds theory is correct, it will cost vastly more to drill miles deep. “
You are absolutely correct. But I think people should begin to rethink using the words “fossil fuel” which implies once it’s gone it’s gone for good. The result of that thinking is...GO GREEN! Whether it makes sense to do so or not. As you point out, it’ doesn’t make sense to do so until there’s a reason for it. That reason will be economic.
The green jobs went to China but the green jobs billions went to DC lobbyists, community organizers, campaign donors, and other parasites.
And daddy won't you take me back to old Perry County
Down by the Kentucky River where Economic survival did lay
Well, I'm sorry my son, but you're too late in asking
Mister Obamas Climate Change hoax has hauled it away
Well, sometimes we'd hear lies about the warmest year ever,
But the weatherman would tell us about a 100 year old unbroken heat record,
And real scientists know that CO2 has been detrimental to the Earth never,
And the politicians and carbon credit scammers would like us all to be Algored.
(Parody of John Prine’s Paradise)
“Long Time Passing”???????????????
Once Again,You Stole My Thunder!!Great Minds???????????
1. The projects are almost all bankrupt.
2. The money has gone into Obama’s cronys’ pockets.
3. Time to move on . . . and create more green jobs!
“How the tiny extreme fringe of envirokooks came to dictate how we live our lives and force things we dont want on us is a huge mystery.”
It began with Richard Nixon’s malignant idea of the EPA. The true believers in the environmentalist religion discovered they could expand their power by writing regulations that had the force of law. By brainwashing the stupid taxpayers into accepting their mainly bogus “Endangered Species” listings, they could take over private property by calling it a ‘wetland,” kill entire industries for the Spotted Owl, and stop dams, developments and agriculture by citing a minnow or salamander’s rights. This should never have happened in the USA.
Bravo!
That’s sad.
It’s The Nation. It’s basically an old school publication for unreconstructed Marxists who are up on using all the new Leftist terminology. No one there with a lick of sense about real business.
Why I instinctively start puking when I hear that phrase “social justice” or getting “justice” of some sort. When you hear someone spouting that phrase or words, you know you have an ignoramus or an outright communist.
Thank you. I have always said “follow the money”. Additonally, citizens need to be aware that the Environmental Lobby and the Politicians they buy are the greatest danger facing the U.S. Ecoonomy and it’s Security.
I’m sure he meant well. Bill O’Reilly stated that Obama is a “Patriot” and “his heart is in the right place.”
You just have to give his genius time to work; it takes time to undo all the damage of Bush and george Washington.
...I’m kidding, of course....
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