Thursday, July 11, 2013

Whatever Happened to "Green Jobs"?

Whatever Happened to "Green Jobs"? | Mother Jones:
"When you stop and think about it for a minute, the messaging change here is pretty extraordinary.
After all, four years ago the administration's central talking point on climate change did not mention climate change.
Rather, the idea was that greening our economy would confer a major benefit in the form of a profusion of green jobs.
"It's ironic that the administration, which helped launch 'Don't talk about climate change, talk about economics and jobs,' has flipped to 'Let's talk about climate change and frame it in moral terms,'" says Joe Romm, a former Clinton administration clean energy official "

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