Job growth should be sparked by productive jobs, not a regression to energy-producing employment.
11.12.10 - At the end of October, backed by a $1 billion federal loan guarantee and cool technology, Brightsource Energy announced the creation of the world's biggest solar power plant in the Mojave Desert, the 330 megawatt Ivanpah. The plant will, according to Brightsource, "create more than 1,000 local union jobs at the peak of construction" along with "$650 million in employee wages over its first 30-year life." Hoorahs came quickly from many in the green tech punditocracy, breathlessly enthusiastic about this bellwether of a green tech job revolution. But is this project, and others like it, the jobs revolution spark we want?
At the risk of sounding something like a Green Grinch, let me be the first to say that I truly hope that America's recovery does not come on the back of a clean tech job revolution. All things equal, history will repeat itself and there won't be any such revolution. And that's a good thing. Job growth--and in particular manufacturing growth--will inevitably come from elsewhere and almost certainly in surprising ways. {read rest}
The grossly wealthy can't think? beyond those ever growing $$$ signs, reason, as per ronnynomics, they're Not trickling down to create growth, even for them, but hoarding that paper wealth, fearing it will all disappear {hint, it will if they keep trying to keep what has been the past some thirty years!}!
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