green jobs

Gunther: “Phony Green Jobs Debate”

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Marc Gunther at The Energy Collective pretty much agrees with me on the “green jobs” thing.

Let’s get real: We can’t predict oil prices 12 months out. Last spring, virtually no one anticipated the global financial crisis of last fall. And we are projecting the number of green jobs that will be created or lost on a state-by-state basis by a law that won’t take effect until 2012? [more]

Failure of Short Run Strategies in Long Run Arguments

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There’s plenty of evidence that politically active people interested in fighting climate change think very differently than scientists who are also interested. I also think they are getting it wrong.

This is in my email from Gore’s “We Campaign”.

Dear Michael,

I asked Troy Galloway — a former steelworker who now builds wind turbine blades — to share his story. [more]