Global warming has quickly become one of the most heated issues in America (pun intended). Rising temperatures and melting icebergs are indisputable evidence that the Earth is warming, but is this global heat wave a man-made crisis or just overblown hype?
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A Green Economy Means Job Opportunities
- From NRDC
By Natural Resources Defense Council - The Earth's Best Defense
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Basic Premise Wrong
This entire argument is based upon the premise that these new "green" jobs will be profitable and effective in the long run. They will not.
Who is to pay all these new employees for their work in green jobs? Certainly not the businesses, companies, or corporations that employ them. These types of ventures will be so expensive to maintain, so ineffective, and so unprofitable that the only conceivable way to maintain them would be via government subsidies.
Who pays for these subsidies? THE EMPLOYEES. Taxes would need to be increased to a much higher level to pay for unproductive ventures such as massive-scale green energy production. Thus in the end, citizens of the United States would not be better off with "green" jobs.
- nickodonnell
April 30, 2009 7:12PM
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