A quick tip: for the latest from Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus--authors of the infamous The Death of Environmentalism--check out their "Death Warmed Over" article in The American Prospect On-line. They develop their thesis further and don't seem to be repentant one iota for pissing off the environmental elite. There is something dangerous to writing poetically in essays about world problems, but there's nothing wrong with a bit of creative insight...
In ten years, if we're still talking about green jobs, we will have failed to transform the world economy to a more sustainable and egalitarian set of markets. For many of us who have been invested in the so-called "green revolution" for the past three decades, the fact that we're talking about jobs with special hues even today is disconcerting. As has been documented here at Blue Olives , efforts to modernize technology and establish a more democratic and benign form of productive capitalism have been in the pipeline since at least the early 1960s. Indeed, "green jobs" should not be something special; they should simply be "good jobs" that are part
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