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Are green energy policies thwarting job growth? Yes
A study by Wood Mackenzie, an energy consulting firm, found that U.S. policies that encourage the de
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With a population of 7 billion and counting on this polluted and shrinking planet, a growing economy is an ecocidal economy, but the instinct to grow is irrational and unrelenting, so the fate of humanity appears to be sealed.
Wood Mackenzie is certainly not an unbiased source! They are totally on the side of more fossil fuel use, more ruining of people's water supplies with fracking, and more hideous environmental destruction of gas wells and other fossil fuel mining. Those are the so-called jobs thwarted.
If green policies were pursued, there would be many jobs in manufacturing efficient electric and hybrid vehicles and devices, solar panels, wind generators, other green energy tech and installation. There would be more jobs making efficient water use and recycling systems and devices for homes and towns. There would be more jobs in an agricultural system not dependent on fossil fuels.
Of course reducing population makes it so there are not too many people for the jobs and reducing demands on our ecology to the point of actually being able to sustain ourselves in the long term.
That's right Val. I see a basic problem with the macho male supremacy of both rich and poor men whose intelligence serves their instinctual drive to conquer and devour everything. They obey the laws when it's to their advantage and rich men have plenty of money when it doesn't. Thus, the ocean fills up with plastic trash, landfills grow to small mountains, the air thickens with smoke and fumes and the ice caps melt away leaving dry river beds and many millions without water for their crops. So, unless those oh-so-savvy businessmen can be faced with reality, there will be a global catastrophe when our slowly shrinking planet Earth can no longer process the growing mass of pollution they produce every day.
Although the planet is still accreting dust from meteorites and some from actual impacts, adding around 1/100th inch per year, the Earth is about the same size as it was 620 million years ago. The thermal balance is maintained by the radioactive core. From wiki;
'Paleomagnetic data has been used to calculate that the radius of the Earth 400 million years ago was 102 ± 2.8% of today's radius.[18][19]
Examinations of data from the Paleozoic and Earth's moment of inertia suggest that there has been no significant change of earth's radius in the last 620 million years'.
Astro-physicists say the Earth originated as a huge mass of hot gases as part of the slowly cooling Sun. That means the Earth has been slowly cooling and shrinking ever since. So has it cooled down to some sort of equilibrium? I suppose that's possible, but the enormous amounts of coal, oil, natural gas and metal ores being extracted, plus recurrant volcanos and earthquakes all together must be causing some degree of shrinkage. One thing is certain, the Earth is not growing to accomodate the growing human population and its growing industrial appetite for more of everything forever; but of course it would not be a surprise if corporate executives hired their own scientists to claim so.
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