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Oakland’s Green Collar Economy to Get to Work With Solar City
Earth2Tech —
... “Green collar jobs” have been touted heavily by Obama who promises 5 million new clean energy jobs with an investment of $150 billion over 10 years. We asked Jones what he thinks of Obama’s numbers and he said he prescribes to the Green Recovery program from the ...
It’s Not Easy Being Green
The Foundry —
... is a telling portrayal of what collectivism in the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany can lead to: impoverishment and oppression of freedom.) More regulations. Higher prices. Less freedom. All for a negligible change in the global temperature. Sounds great. The Center for American Progress reports that building solar, wind, and expanding mass transit and infrastructure will not only reduce emissions but stimulate our economy. So and outrageously expensive cap-and-tax scheme that reduces jobs and increases energy costs across the board will be a remedy for a weak economy? Green is ...
Pascal's Wager and Climate Change
O'Reilly Radar - Insight, analysis, and research about emerging technologies. —
... Let's assume for a moment that there is no human-caused climate change, or that the consequences are not dire, and we've made big investments to avert it. What's the worst that happens? In order to deal with climate change:
We've made major investments in renewable energy. This is an urgent issue even in the absence of global warming, as the IEA has now revised the date of "peak oil" to 2020, only 11 years from now.
We've invested in a potent new source of jobs. This is a far better source of stimulus than some of the ideas that ...
Now Paul Krugman is Stealing $11,000 from Every American Household
The Foundry —
In his New York Times column today, Paul Krugman writes: “I cringe when “green economy” enthusiasts insist that protecting the environment would be all gain, no pain.” We feel his pain. But then Krugman goes on to write:
Consumers would end up poorer than they would have been without a climate-change policy. But how much poorer? Not much, say careful researchers, like those at the Environmental Protection Agency ….
But the EPA made some revealing assumptions about the relationship between carbon ...
