Is It True The Green Jobs Will Cause Double The Unemployment?

A economist said it would, and all the economists I have seen on TV have said all this spending will only work short term, in a year of two we will worse off than now! If we get double the unemployment - we will be in a depression! This is scary!Is It True The Green Jobs Will Cause Double The Unemployment?
No, it is not.





I noticed your lack of any source, either valid or fox, which of course contributes to the invalidity of your supposed point.





Please do some research before posting misleading questions.Is It True The Green Jobs Will Cause Double The Unemployment?
If you want anyone to take you seriously you would provide links to these economists saying these things.





It would appear your statement is a gross distortion of a highly dubious Spanish study.


The study found that government spending on green electricity in its infancy was half as productive in creating jobs as private sector spending within established energy markets.


In 1900 driving a car was less efficient than riding a horse. But with new technology things change.


As such to extrapolate the figures from the Spanish study to all green energy investment in the future is baseless.


To then read ';half as efficient at creating jobs'; means ';double the unemployment'; is simply wrong.
I heard an economist from Spain who are using a lot of green technology say something to the effect that for every 4 jobs created by green tech about 10 other jobs will be lost. The numbers may be off a bit, but that's about right according to him. He also said that the green jobs are not very long term- I didn't quite get why they are short term.





It sounds to me like that's a bad trade off and will definitely increase unemployment.
So-called ';green jobs'; are largely blue-collar jobs building and installing facilities that then require virtually no staffing. Therefore, the jobs end.


Even the manufacture of things like solar panels and turbines for wind are highly mechanized and the assembly is high-tech, largely done by robotic assembly lines. These jobs require technical skills and are not the types of jobs that laid-off workers can move into without substantial retraining.


The biggest problem as far as jobs are concerned is that these energy sources will require fewer workers than the current sources of energy, so there will be far fewer people employed to generate the same amount of power resulting in net unemployment at lower wage scales.


Additionally, marketable and economical ';alternative energy'; is still years away. It's still in the research and development stages and far from providing any significant number of jobs.





The best source of immediate energy and employment would be the construction and staffing of new nuclear facilities.


The US currently gets about 20% of its power from nuclear as opposed to France for instance which gets more than 70% of its power for clean safe nuclear.


Why aren't we doing this???????





Also, we could explore and drill new natural gas and oil wells which would provide more than 500,000 new jobs and end our dependence on foreign oil and stop sending our money overseas.


This is a national security issue as well as a jobs and economic issue.


Why aren't we doing this?????





You are correct.


It is scary that nobody in Congress is using simple common sense.
bash should listen to the news more often. The recent study from Spain stated those ';temporary'; positions, boiled down to one permanent position for every ten; the unemployment rate actually increasing and the operations costly to maintain.





Going ';Green'; could put us further in the ';Red';.
Are these all those GREEN JOBS, that Obama is supposedly going to create... or is this a few that he is now saving.





notice how his promise of creating 3 million new jobs has simply disappeared.... along with a whole lot of his other promises.
Again, you made a statement without any facts to back it up.
Yes what will all the coal miners and oil rig workers do when they ban everything.
Green usually turns to brown around summer time in these parts. So maybe that`s the way we are headed economically too!
Let's just get all the oil now.


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