From Environmental Capital:
Environmentalists took their eye off the ball after the House passed the Waxman-Markey bill, and risk losing ground to energy-industry opponents who’ve mustered big-money messages, the WaPo reports. One problem greens face is strategic, “whether to scare the public with predictions of heat waves or woo it with promises of green jobs.” ...
One potential key to the climate bill is the partnership of greens and labor. But if green jobs don’t materialize, will that spell the end of the “blue-green alliance”?, in Climate Wire.
The overall macroeconomic impact of climate change policy will most likely be negative. Since any increase in green jobs will likely be offset by reductions in carbon-intensive jobs, the green jobs argument for climate policy is naive at best and disingenuous at worst.
