“We cannot cede to other nations the technology that will power new jobs and new industries,” President Obama said this week in his second inaugural address. “We must claim its promise. That is how we will maintain our economic vitality and our national treasure — our forests and waterways; our croplands and snowcapped peaks. That is how we will preserve our planet, commanded to our care by God.”
It’s one thing to say we have to throw a lot of money at solving global warming to save the planet. It’s quite another to pretend that there is a “green economy” just waiting to happen, filled with hundreds of thousands or even millions of good jobs, as Obama has often promised.
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