From no less a source than SLATE magazine.
And there you have it folks, a real academic study reported in the media, GREEN ENERGY will put more people out of work than it will employ, it will raise the cost of energy, putting people in other sectors out of work too. Oh wait, wasn't this already proven in Spain? Yes. Yes it was! I guess its no surprise then that GREEN ENERGY is a favorite of socialists here in the US.
And there you have it folks, a real academic study reported in the media, GREEN ENERGY will put more people out of work than it will employ, it will raise the cost of energy, putting people in other sectors out of work too. Oh wait, wasn't this already proven in Spain? Yes. Yes it was! I guess its no surprise then that GREEN ENERGY is a favorite of socialists here in the US.
http://www.slate.com/id/2284634/
Green Smoke Screen
Supporters of "green energy" like to say it will create more jobs. They're wrong.
By Bjørn Lomborg
Political rhetoric has shifted away from the need to respond to the "generational challenge" of climate change. Investment in alternative energy technologies like solar and wind is no longer peddled on environmental grounds. Instead, we are being told of the purported economic payoffs—above all, the promise of so-called "green jobs." Unfortunately, that does not measure up to economic reality.
The Copenhagen Consensus Center asked Gürcan Gülen, a senior energy economist at the Bureau for Economic Geology at the University of Texas at Austin, to assess the state of the science in defining, measuring, and predicting the creation of green jobs. Gülen concluded that job creation "cannot be defended as another benefit" of well-meaning green policies. In fact, the number of jobs that these policies create is likely to be offset—or worse—by the number of jobs that they destroy.
Supporters of "green energy" like to say it will create more jobs. They're wrong.
By Bjørn Lomborg
Political rhetoric has shifted away from the need to respond to the "generational challenge" of climate change. Investment in alternative energy technologies like solar and wind is no longer peddled on environmental grounds. Instead, we are being told of the purported economic payoffs—above all, the promise of so-called "green jobs." Unfortunately, that does not measure up to economic reality.
The Copenhagen Consensus Center asked Gürcan Gülen, a senior energy economist at the Bureau for Economic Geology at the University of Texas at Austin, to assess the state of the science in defining, measuring, and predicting the creation of green jobs. Gülen concluded that job creation "cannot be defended as another benefit" of well-meaning green policies. In fact, the number of jobs that these policies create is likely to be offset—or worse—by the number of jobs that they destroy.